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BetacommandBot 18:44, 13 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Political Associations

Lennon was known to have, later in life, some association with the radical left (his lines "imagine no possessions... imagine all the people, sharing all the world" clearly show idealistic communist sympathies, as well). The Socialist Workers Party in England courted him, though he never actually joined. I wish I knew it well enough to add a section. But if anyone else does, I encourage you to add it. --MQDuck 03:41, 14 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Maybe under "Political activism"? I think that if you can cite (reliably) the instance of the courting by the SWP of Liverpool, and Lennon's reaction, then it would be usable. If you cannot cite it, you cannot include it. - Arcayne (^{cast a spell}) 03:54, 14 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Archiving

I've again re-archived the tendentious discussion. It started out being about the provenance of a citation since replaced in the article, and evolved (or rather devolved) somewhat after that. As well, the quote from Ono released to the public has some sources as being through Geffen and others non-attributed. In order to avoid ruffling any firther feathers, the attribution to Geffen was removed. I think that fairly sums up the discussion was archived (those parts that actually dealt with the article, that is). Let's move on. I offer my apologies for allowing the argument to escalate. - Arcayne (^{cast a spell}) 18:38, 20 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Lennon is B-class

This is a big article that needs quite a few references. How long has this article been B-class? It's a scandal. Look at the big picture and think about elevating John to GA. The Beatles, McCartney, Epstein, Martin, The Beatles' assistants and family members are already there (two more are up for a GA right now) - so why not him? --andreasegde (talk) 18:25, 20 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The article clearly meats the B-Class criteria. As for GA, why don't you nominate it? —Viriditas | Talk 22:25, 20 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Death

Cleaned up this section a little bit. Got thoroughly disgusted doing so, I might add. Hotcop2 (talk) 00:22, 21 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I know what you mean - a while ago I was working on this page and re-read the NYTimes articles that ran after the murder to get the details right - I said then that I would never read those again, as it was just as painful 25+ years after the fact as it had been the first time I read them, in 1980. Tvoz |talk 04:56, 21 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]