A fact from George Herms appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 30 March 2014 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that a drifter asking, "There's the makers, the takers, and the fakers. Which will you be?" triggered George Herms to pursue life as an artist?
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It seems fine to add mention of RBPA to the Herms page but not necessarily a huge oversight. It seems like a label applied to a group of friends, like a subgenre of Beat, but the artists all had their own things going on and weren't primarily acting together as a collective? I don't personally know a lot about it though I'm familiar with the term and the artists involved.StaceyEOB (talk) 22:19, 20 November 2014 (UTC)Reply
@StaceyEOB| it was not my intent at all to point out a huge oversight, i was mostly interested in hearing from editors about a modest, tempered, accounting. this fact would in no way overshadow their great personal accomplishments. just another linkage / spiritual / artistic symbol of a moment in Beat Generation time / alliance / solidarity. --Ratbastardassn (talk) 17:56, 22 November 2014 (UTC)Reply
^See Rebecca Solnit, ‘Heretical Constellations: Notes on California, 1946–61’, in Sussman, ed., Beat Culture and the New America, 69–122, especially 71.
