Talk:Stewart Farrar

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More information about this article... The following comments have been left for this page: Article was passed as a GA - here are the comments from Katsam, who passed it. - AdelaMae (talk - contribs) 16:59, 7 December 2006 (UTC) Contents 1 GA 2 Importance 3 Citation needed 4 TV Soaps / cites 5 Minor Edit to the Early Life Section 6 Primary sources 7 Removed Rosencomet link that added zero information to article 7.1 RfC in progress 8 GA [edit] GA I'm passing this article. I don't know anything about Stewart Farrar or Neopaganism but it is a well-referenced article and smoothly written, easy for an uninvolved person to understand. Some suggestions: I did notice that the footnotes were mostly inside the punctuation when I think they're supposed to be outside the punctuation, but that's a quibble. A meatier suggestion is that it would be good to know why Farrar was considered so influential in Wiccan/Neopagan circles. Was it because of the What Witches Do book? Did he attract people into Wicca/Neopaganism with his novels? Or was it the Eight Sabbats for Witches book? And finally, if you're going to mention that he had seven wives, maybe you should mention it in the "early life and career" section -- it's a little too startling to be packed into a sentence fragment. Katsam 11:28, 7 December 2006 (UTC) [edit] Importance I rated this as High, but I'm very much of the opinion it's BARELY high importance, as it IS. I think the article needs to show his importance more, and maybe that isn't a reasons for saying mid level importance, but a quality issue, which si why I went with high. He is, outside of Alex Sanders, the most well known Alexandrian, and co-author of a number of seminal works about Wicca.--Vidkun 18:44, 4 January 2007 (UTC) (edit)

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[edit] Citation needed

I have cut the following here as needing to be referenced:

"Farrar also wrote a number of episodes of the early TV soap opera, Crossroads."

Can someone provide a source for this? Jkelly 02:35, 11 December 2005 (UTC)

• Janet told me this once, about 10 years back. I seem to recall reading it in a preface to one of his books, too. - Ali-oops^✍ 11:11, 11 December 2005 (UTC)

It is easy to believe, but I cannot find any reference to it for verifiability. If you can remember which book it is mentioned in, that would be great. Jkelly 23:50, 11 December 2005 (UTC)

• It may well be in Anothony Kemp's book, "Witchcraft and Paganism Today" (ISBN 1854791176). I haven't got it to hand to verify, though - Ali-oops^✍ 19:42, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] TV Soaps / cites

Stewart was on writers panels for a number of UK television soap operas including "Crossroads", "Emergency Ward 10" and "Dr Finlay's Casebook". He also wrote a number of radio and television plays including one with the John Betjeman (the then poet lauriate). As far as verification is concerned I have cuttings from the radio and television listings of the time. Judith Stewart Farrar (daughter by his third wife). —Preceding unsigned comment added by Manchego (talk • contribs) Apologies for not signing, this is the first time I've used this website. Judith Farrar(Manchego 14:52, 9 April 2006 (UTC))

[edit] Minor Edit to the Early Life Section

"and became involved in journalism." I deleted this sentence fragment because it is not gramatically correct abd only repeats the information given in the previous sentence. --Hypatia360 05:49, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

Good edit. Jkelly 18:26, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Primary sources

There seems to be some concern about the use of primary sources in this article. I agree that it is always important to be attentive about avoiding original research and using reliable sources. What would be much more helpful than revert warring over warning templates, however, is if interested editors would open up either Guiley's or Rabinovich's books and update the references in the article (info on both books can be found in the article). I can do that with Rabinovich, but don't have Guiley's book at hand. Jkelly 17:33, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Removed Rosencomet link that added zero information to article

http://www.rosencomet.com/starwood/1995/STXV4.html Link went to page that didn't even mention Stewart Farrar's name. Timmy12 23:18, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

The name is mentioned at the top of the page. Are you blind? Please stop removing citations. Citations are not expected to "add information to the article", they are expected to support the information in the article, as this one does. Cheers! —Hanuman Das 23:46, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] RfC in progress

There is now an RfC in progress on the issue of the Starwood linking: Talk:Starwood Festival#Request for Comment: Inserting references to Starwood Festival in articles. --Kathryn NicDhàna ♫♦♫ 20:55, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] GA

I'm passing this article. I don't know anything about Stewart Farrar or Neopaganism but it is a well-referenced article and smoothly written, easy for an uninvolved person to understand.

Some suggestions: I did notice that the footnotes were mostly inside the punctuation when I think they're supposed to be outside the punctuation, but that's a quibble. A meatier suggestion is that it would be good to know why Farrar was considered so influential in Wiccan/Neopagan circles. Was it because of the What Witches Do book? Did he attract people into Wicca/Neopaganism with his novels? Or was it the Eight Sabbats for Witches book? And finally, if you're going to mention that he had seven wives, maybe you should mention it in the "early life and career" section -- it's a little too startling to be packed into a sentence fragment. Katsam 11:28, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

While this is a pretty good article, and certainly good compared to the usual run of Neopagan articles on the 'pedia, I think it needs slightly better sourcing to be a GA. Nothing major, but I wouldn't have passed it without getting a bit more third-party sourcing. I'd also note that at this point people shouldn't be adding unsourced statements to this. - Kathryn NicDhàna ♫♦♫ 21:14, 27 November 2007 (UTC)