Talk:John Wilcock

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I spotted this article in the process of being deleted, for lack of notablity. I don't believe that should have happened, for what its worth I have some knowledge of the subject matter & it is more notable than many articles that slip through the net.--Zleitzen 04:36, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

As it stands, this article terminates Wilcock's career in the early 1990s, while in fact he is still active. Both Zleitezen and myself have attempted to include in this article information about Wilcock's more recent career since he moved to California. However, editors (or rather, one editor in particular) have repeatedly deleted this material, including mention of his Ojai Orange magazine and external links to the only places where Wilcock's recent writing can be found - and even sent me a spam warning. I am relatively new to Wikipedia, but am somewhat baffled by this. My instinct is to reverse these edits, but before doing so I would like the views of others on the legitimacy/relevance of this material. Johnbax (talk) 13:02, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

Needs rewrite for encyclopedic tone

The article states:

"The counterculture was nothing but a dull puddle until Wilcock kicked out the jams and ignited the underground press, which attracted absurd prosecutions that of course boosted circulations."

This is sentence is so richly unencyclopedic, I scarcely know where to begin. Someone, please: rewrite it.

(Yes, the current style is amusing in a Hunter Thompsonesque way. "Dull puddle," indeed. But this is Wikipedia: hyperbole is inappropriate and unwelcome here.)

Karl gregory jones (talk) 11:14, 3 May 2013 (UTC)

I've gone ahead and deleted it. Not only was the tone inappropriate, but it's also unsourced. -- Gyrofrog (talk) 19:57, 21 November 2013 (UTC)

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