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Tuesday, October 11, 2011

William Gazecki on Jacque Fresco

"It’s a 'lack of professional engagement', William Gazecki who in 2006 completed Future by Design, a feature-length profile of Jacque Fresco says, that has hurt Fresco the most. “The real missing link in Jacque’s world is having put Jacque to work,” Gazecki says, “[It’s] exemplified when people say: ‘Well, show me some buildings he’s built. And I don’t mean the domes out in Venus. I mean, let’s see an office building, let’s see a manufacturing plant, let’s see a circular city.’ And that’s where he should have been 30 years ago. He should have been applying his work, in the real world … [but] he’s not a collaborator, and I think that’s why he’s never had great public achievements.”
Gazecki Commentary
These comments from Gazecki are more suited to the "Influence" section. The use of Gazecki's quotes in the way it currently presented is not very encyclopedic. It reads more like a newspaper. Perhaps these quotes should be summed up and paraphrased?--Biophily (talk) 01:18, 24 December 2013 (UTC)
Earl King, you keep moving the paragraph. It belongs better to the "Influence" subsection because Gazecki is explaining why Fresco has not been a large influence in architecture and society in general. Just because you want to strike the reader immediately with a negative sentiment does not make it the proper place for that paragraph. It's better to move it to the "Influence" subsection, and have the lead sentences of the criticism section be neither criticism nor praise. BLP's require balance, unlike other types of articles.--Biophily (talk) 01:36, 24 December 2013 (UTC)
I don't think so. You also used a false edit summary in the process of reverting. You also created a very funny sounding section called theoretical criticism and that is too odd a way to present things. You removed Gazecki's comment from the actual critical section where it belonged. It is a powerful and succinct statement about Fresco and unlike most of the fluff now in that section and honorific blessing type of material, it presents a different and direct view of Fresco from someone who made a film about him and knew him intimately because of that. So, burying information at the bottom in a badly phrased topic heading that has nothing to do with the critical value of what Gazecki said seems wrong for the article. It is a continuance of your former editing style which is not neutral. You removed and buried the information also twice with false edit summaries. You reverted this three times including your first revert. Earl King Jr. (talk) 04:45, 24 December 2013 (UTC)