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Full of Original Synthesis

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This article appears to be full of original synthesis. It has plenty of cites (and indeed external links within the article body that should not be there), and quotes, but they are mostly being used to construct a discussion about McKenna's theories, when the sources and quotes themselves have nothing to do with him or his theories.

Content that is supported by construction of an argument that does not exist in the sources themselves should be removed. Escape Orbit (Talk) 17:06, 6 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I now note that some of the content added by Z4i3r7tg6j is the same they were topic banned for on Ephemeralization two years ago. Same extensive quotes, diagrams and original synthesis. All they've done is changed the article targeted, relating it to a completely different person.
It's all been reverted, and I would ask Z4i3r7tg6j to think carefully about what is meant by Original Synthesis and understand how it applies to what they have added.--Escape Orbit (Talk) 13:17, 11 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I would also argue for Z4i3r7tg6j's 564 edits to Terence McKenna be hidden from the history. The edits by others leading up to the last good state of the article (17 August 2024, less than a month ago) are 1.2 full history pages away, which is unnecessarily inconvenient to get to. Pinging Diannaa for input, if interested.   ~ Tom.Reding (talkdgaf)  15:15, 11 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
For context, if you exclude Z4i3r7tg6j's edits and edits caused by them, the last 500 edits go back to January 2015.   ~ Tom.Reding (talkdgaf)  15:36, 11 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I personally will not do revision deletion nine years worth of edits. Quotations are not copyvio, no matter how excessive, so I'm not sure the edits would qualify for revision deletion regardless. — Diannaa (talk) 18:30, 11 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I'm only asking for revdel back to 17 August 2024, which is immediately before Z4i3r7tg6j began editing the article.   ~ Tom.Reding (talkdgaf)  19:41, 11 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I don't see why we would revdelete either. But the editor sure is disruptive. Drmies (talk) 13:56, 13 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Arrest history

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Terence McKenna had at least two Federal criminal cases in his home state of Colorado, which provide an interesting insight into drug and tax laws of the 1970s as well as how they have changed in the past 50 years. I would like to add the information of his case numbers and disposition to the Wiki article (for example, a plea of Nolo Contendere was entered by defendant and accepted by the court). Holdmysilmaril (talk) 20:25, 8 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]