Talk:Mick Farren

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From Mick himself:

"For more general information, I have Wikipedia, “the Free Encyclopedia,” on a hot button, and it’s faster and more complete than any printed desk encyclopedia. Doubts have been voiced as to how an encyclopedia can be accurate when it is created and updated for and by the people, but constant use tends to confirm Wikipedia’s general exactitude, and the entry on me (which makes me profoundly happy) is accurate, if short, and written with enough mild cynicism to keep me in my place. Inevitable mistakes do occur, given Wikipedia’s open architecture, but, according to a spot-check by the magazine Nature, these are in a similar error margin to that of the Encyclopedia Britannica’s mistakes." (source)

Well done guys and girls! - Ta bu shi da yu 12:47, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

• Very nice. Cain Mosni 19:22, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

Concern over references

It's kind of awkward when dealing with counter-culture, but really the reference sources cited are hardly either academic or authoritative: one Freeserve user page, one AOL user page, a bibliography from a dead site, and discography pages from a site of self-proclaimed "highly opinionated review books". Not exactly up to WP:CITE standards. Even if the man himself doesn't object, the quality is hardly up to WP's verification standards. Cain Mosni 19:22, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

Restructure

I've tried rejigging the text into more coherent sections. The disc and bib lists have been taken from www.thanatosoft.freeserve.co.uk. I'm sure there's more that could be added to Farren's counterculture activities. – Drwhawkfan (talk) 12:29, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

Doc 40

The bot removed a link to Mick Farren's Doc 40 blog. Surely this is an appropriate link for a Mick Farren article? Proscriptus (talk) 14:13, 15 January 2009 (UTC)

Yes, in that it functions as Farren's de facto homepage, it is (IMHO). It's been removed before - there is standing policy not to link to blogs as references. Wwwhatsup (talk) 22:08, 15 January 2009 (UTC)

RIP Mick

Very sad to hear Mick has died. I think the article should reflect the fact that he died on stage with the Deviants (albeit a new line-up). He was a very influential figure in the British 60s counterculture. RIP — Preceding unsigned comment added by 146.90.24.93 (talk) 19:13, 28 July 2013 (UTC)

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Bio rating: Stub/Low. Very little truly biographical detail, but Farren's not really going to come to the attention of most people. Cain Mosni 19:37, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

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Mick wasn't Jewish

Mick may have had an 'Isro' but he wasn't Jewish. The only person who ever thought that was Julie Burchill, and she later admitted her mistake in her book Unchosen (p. 79). Accordingly, I have undone the inaccurate and badly-formatted edits made by the anonymous user 101.167.46.101 on 22 October 2016‎. Phil Champ (talk) 08:58, 22 August 2017 (UTC)

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He sporadically did musical work after that?

There are an awful lot of albums listed for Mick Farren and/or the Deviants for this proviso to be included in the article. Farren released more albums in the 1990's and 2000's than in his early work in the 1960's and 1970's. Maybe a reword? Shocking Blue (talk) 18:02, 23 November 2020 (UTC)

writings collection missing from bibliography

"elvis died for somebody's sins but not mine: a lifetime's collected writing" published by headpress, 2012. looking at it now in kindle. ISBN 978-1-900486-92-7 (paperback) & 978-1-909394-00-1 (ebook)

duncanrmi (talk) 13:36, 19 October 2022 (UTC)