Talk:Renaissance Pleasure Faire of Southern California

Passing the Torch
I am unable to improve the writing herein. I hope someone takes up the revision before the page is flagged for deletion. I meant to light the torch, not see it to the finish line. Im.marcus (talk) 06:09, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

I started some cleaning on it. Does anyone know why Burning Man is a link on this? James1906 (talk) 02:55, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

I couldn't find a good reference to link the Ren Faire culture from Southern California to Burning Man. It may be unimportanted but the events are influenced by each other as many people attend both. I understand that the same could be said about, for instance, the Orange Show but Burning Man has a stronger correlation when it comes to fashion trends, attitudes and the performing arts therein. (Im.marcus (talk) 06:17, 22 April 2008 (UTC))

Self Published Sources
There is a notice on this page stating that it might contain self published sources. I would like to note that this is the first artical I have written in any medium. Therefore as of today, it is an impossibility. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Im.marcus (talk • contribs) 06:32, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

Too Much Spam!
This page has 88 links to advertising sites related to this faire. All of the footnotes are links, and they all seem to link to commercial sites. The actual information is sparse, and the article is mostly a huge list of acts and merchandisers. It needs a lot of improvement. Artemis-Arethusa (talk) 14:36, 10 May 2008 (UTC)
 * So let's improve the article before deleting it. &mdash;  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 15:17, 10 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Ever reasonable. Thanks. Artemis-Arethusa (talk) 15:20, 10 May 2008 (UTC)
 * There's a first shot. Gotta look around to see if we can find a legit image to use here. &mdash;  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 15:44, 10 May 2008 (UTC)

Missing Controversies?
In the early days of the Pleasure Faire, there was significant conflict over who owned the rights to the Faire. The first few Faires were organized under the auspices of KPFK, but one couple, Ron and Phyllis Patterson did much of the organizing work to make the Faire happen. This led to a dispute over ownership of the name "Pleasure Faire," which was won by the Pattersons. There was a lot of bad feeling over this in the next few years, but like most such disputes the participants eventually went on to other things and only a low-level of grumbling remained.

I have the feeling that this article was written by people having a "junior moment" -- that is, they are too young to remember the early history of the Faire. However, I am unable to find "authoritative" sources. I did find the following with a quick Google search:

Pacifica Radio: the Rise of an Alternative Network, by Matthew Lasar Bgoldnyxnet (talk) 00:32, 31 March 2012 (UTC)


 * No sources, so it's not getting in. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 00:33, 31 March 2012 (UTC)