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Neutrality and Objectivity of Article Disputed

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This article section sounded to me suspiciously like a flyleaf book description, so I looked at the book. Sure enough, much of the text is taken from the flyleaf with a word changed here and there. The original contributer of this article has the user name duttongotham and the book is published by Gotham Books. I'm no investigative genius, but I believe the neutrality of this article is compromised. For sure, I am removing "the last rock supergroup" and "the biggest rock star of his generation" as these statements are in no way objective or supportable. I believe the article needs a rewrite. poncirus (talk)173.66.14.55 (talk) 16:10, 13 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Factual errors

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Do we have a reliable source that verifies that these are identified factual errors in the book? Note that we cannot, as Wikipedia editors, find info in the book and then find another contradictory source and then call that an "error"--that's what Wikipedia calls original research, and is not allowed. If we don't have such a source, the whole section should be removed. Qwyrxian (talk) 02:15, 15 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I've removed the whole section. I know that this will seem odd to some people, but unless we have a reliable source that lists the "errors", we can't identify them ourselves. If sources are found, the section can easily be re-addded. Heck, it would be good even if we just had a quote that said "The book has been criticized for having many errors"--that would be sufficient even without listing all of them, so long as we can properly verify it. Qwyrxian (talk) 05:19, 29 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]