Talk:Daniel Pinchbeck/Archive 1

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Bibliography

I have a to-do to gather sources and create a comprehensive bib here. — FJ | hello 07:46, May 21, 2005 (UTC)

Sources

This entire article smacks of original research and reads like sales pitch. I can detect no neutrality, and there are no sources given... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.143.158.19 (talk) 17:24, 20 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy Deletion

This is an article about a non-notable living person. This, and any accompanying articles, such as Breaking Open the Head (BOTH), should be deleted. Has anyone read his work? It's garbage. BOTH serves as a cheap and novel retelling of the history of psychedelia and its culture, with a few trip reports tossed in. The book is non-notable, in my opinion, because, due to BOTH's subject matter, it's inevitably listed amongst works by the Shulgins and Learys and McKennas of the "community," and BOTH isn't important to or becoming of the community. His work hardly amounts to original material. It's essentially the story of the Shulgins, Leary, and McKenna, but they already have fairly well-documented biographies, and Pinchbeck's book doesn't provide anything new, and it's certainly not praised as a must-read book. And I'm not saying it should be praised a must-read book to stay on Wikipedia... his work is garbage, and without notable work, he's a non-notable person (simply being an advocate of psychedelics isn't enough, sorry) and should be purged from this encyclopaedia. —oac old american century ^talk @ 15:56, 31 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]