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Sourcing Stone quotation

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The page source reads:

Hollywood director [[Oliver Stone]] called him “the charismatic Croatian philosopher”<ref name=Istros>{{cite web|title=Book launch publicity page|url=http://istrosbooks.com/articles/latest-book-28/|publisher=Istros Books|accessdate=22 April 2014}}</ref>{{Better source|reason=citation is book launch publicity material, is there an objective source which comments on what Stone said?|date=April 2014}]

For those who have never heard of the guy it's nice to have the quotation from such a famous figure but I really doubt we'll ever get a better source for it. These statements are part and parcel of publishers' book launch strategies. This statement was most likely made specifically for the blurb, as in the existing citation and reported by the publisher for the ebook, so I doubt we're gonna find an objective source. I say we leave the Stone quotation and replace the source with the back cover of book itself and remove the better citation tag. Anyone got a better idea? - phi (talk) 17:43, 21 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Is that really one of the most import points from the body of the article that needed to be summarized in the lead? Let's just cut it. Mduvekot (talk) 22:04, 29 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]