Here's the definition he used in question:

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"Despite their tremendous diversity, these various neopagan groups do share at least a few features. First, in contrast to New Age spirituality and to many new religious movements, neopagan groups typically look not to a future era but rather backwards to an ancient, usually pre-Christian past they they wish to either recover or draw inspiration from in the modern world. Second, neopagan groups tend to be more loosely organized than other new religious movements; rather than drawing rigid boundaries between insiders and outsiders, they tend to be organized in more fluid, flexible communities, and individuals may be involved in multiple groups or may simply practice on their own. Third, neopaganism tends to be a very practice-oriented movement, typically with a stronger emphasis on ritual performance and magic than dogmatic belief systems. ... Although all of these groups look back to much older sources, they are all 'neo-" or "new" movements in the sense that they have emerged (or some would say re-emerged) in America and Europe in relatively recent times, basically since the 1950's and 60's." (Urban 159)

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I do believe that we need to broaden our overall definition of paganism/neopaganism for the sheer fact of how access to the Internet has changed how that religious phenomena functions in the West. Neopaganism is now much, much different than it was 20 years ago by virtue of how easy it is to access information on the topic and reach out to others who are involved with it--making the requirements Mr. York listed in his definition of paganism as somewhat constricting and unrealistic. I also don't support Mr. York's idea of applying the term 'paganism' to groups that hold older cultural beliefs, especially those of indigenous origin--while culture and religion are certainly intertwined, I feel like the separation of the term paganism and neo-paganism should exist for exactly the reason Mr. York unintentionally demonstrated within his writings, as if we don't acknowledge this phenomena of these groups merging rather recently, we run the risk of imperialism and erasure. I know this subreddit explicitly separates itself from that, but it's still important to note as a major point in how he utilizes the term he defines as pagan.

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Sorry if this was long and ramble-y, I really love talking about this stuff.