Talk:Dana Beal
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This article was nominated for deletion on 6 May 2006. The result of the discussion was keep. |
fuddlemark (fuddle me!) 14:20, 14 May 2006 (UTC)
To see Dana Beal in a tie is earth-shattering, and i used to live in the same house as him for 8 years.
This article needs serious cleanup...
Something gives me the feeling that Dana Beal wrote this biography himself. What kind of douchbag posts his autobiography on wikipedia? Oh, wait, Jeremy Hammond. Blacklisted news was a great fucking book though, it was so cool to see that picture of Logan Square Park filled with yippies. Now it's full of yuppie scumbags.
If Beal wrote it, it would be a lot better than this rambling " 'member when? "; he might be self-important, but he's much more lucid than this.
As someone who knows a bit about the topic, I suggest that the current body of the entry be retained, but clearly marked as an anecdotal snippet from a contemporary. I'll expand the first paragraph with what I know, in a manner more appropriate to an Wikipedia entry. This other content DOES shed some light on Beal in an interesting way, I just don't think it should be above the fold.
Allowing for anecdotal material as was placed in this article (probably by AJ or Aron) is one of the things that makes Wikipedia such a good research source. It should be obvious to most readers what is anecdotal. The stuff about Michigan State really captures the spirit of campus cultural protest in the mid-1960s. I cleaned up some of the language that was inappropriate anywhere except a chat room, but left the comment about the Michigan psychiatrist since it seemed to be a case of "poetic license." --21 March 2006
[edit] http://user.aol.com/station019/march.htm
ReyBrujo, please do not remove this link from the article again as you did on October 22, 2006. Removing it was vandalism in my opinion because it is a reference citation, and was not listed in the external links section. You called it an external link in your comment for removing it.
"Supporting references or footnotes need not be kept to a minimum, but they should be separated from other external links."
It is a supporting reference for this statement in the article: "NYC has had marijuana rallies since 1967." It took me a long time for me to find the 2 supporting references for that statement. It is common knowledge among cannabis advocates, but it is not easy to find citations on the web for it. Both citations are needed since they fill in the picture more clearly. I am putting them in the reference format <ref> </ref>, and creating a reference section, so that the citation nature is further amplified. I also put the other reference links in the article in that format. And I took some of the external links and used them to reference some of the article too. So now there are fewer links remaining in the external links section. There were very few before. --Timeshifter 08:52, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] CannabisNews.com archives link for Dana Beal
ReyBrujo, please do not remove the link from the article again as you did on October 22, 2006. It is a lot easier to link to this specialized archive with a single search link, than it is to link to many of the articles. And it keeps the number of external links down. That is the purpose of most of the rules on the external links guideline pages:
The guideline about using search engine results says "normally" don't use them, not "always" don't use them. I rewrote the description of the link so that its relevance is clearer. CannabisNews is in the link title now, so that the specialized relevance of the link is clearer. --Timeshifter 08:15, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
