Talk:City Lights Bookstore

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The SF Chronicle has been publishing a long series of articles on City Lights. I'd put the link on the wikipedia page but I don't know how long it will be valid. Perhaps someone wants to mine it for more info. See [1] and the links therein to the other parts of the series.

[edit] Landmark Status

I revised this section for accuracy, verifiable content, and NPOV. I linked to the final PDF version of the SF Board of Supervisors ordinance that conferred landmark status. Its language concerning City Lights' role with respect to free speech and First Amendment protection is somewhat more neutral and objective than the language in the (unattributed) quotation originally linked to this section, derived from the article "Poetry Landmark" on Poets.org. It is likely that the latter quotation appeared in one or the other of the preliminary documents that were submitted in support of landmark status, but these are not available online and therefore the final ordinance is more verifiable. --The issues of whether or not City Lights Bookstore is itself an exemplar of free speech, or whether or not they ought to stock books by Oriana Fallaci, are not relevant to the landmark status ordinance, so apart from the NPOV problems with language in the previous versions of the section, if the politics of City Lights Bookstore is to be addressed it should be in a separate section. --David Sewell 21:45, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Shameful

This is the most biased article on Wikipedia that I have ever seen. I am not qualified to work on articles, but I am positive that this article is INSANELY biased! -- —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 68.255.79.34 (talk) 00:18, 7 February 2007 (UTC).

[edit] Copyright violation

I removed the first paragraph because it is a blatant cut and paste from [2] Schabot 02:27, 17 July 2007 (UTC)

Actually, there is much more than that. Schabot 02:31, 17 July 2007 (UTC)

I am sure there is more material pulled from the City Lights Website, but I don't have time to check it all. I suggest that the page be scraped except for the intro and started again from scratch. Schabot 02:38, 17 July 2007 (UTC)