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They have the same last name? I'd read his mother's maiden name was Robinson, not D'Avalon. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.220.209.13 ( talk) 16:15, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
"...and featured a soundtrack by lesbian singer k.d. lang."
There's no real need for that clarification. I've rewritten it
— Preceding
unsigned comment added by
128.113.199.49 (
talk) 22:31, 8 December 2004
if the work attributed to robbins was found to be by someone else, why is it still in the list of works? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 128.147.38.10 ( talk • contribs) .
I removed the 'how to write like tom robbins' external link because it goes to a generic search page, rather than any thing remotely like what it suggests. If anyone knows the real link, please add it. I'd love to see it! Hegar 13:23, 2 February 2007 (UTC)
Now User:Irishguy has deleted the link as "spam". I've copied the link to the top of this thread, as I don't believe it is spam, but don't have time to read it and utilize it as a cited reference, currently. -- Quiddity ( talk) 21:23, 29 March 2008 (UTC)
Doing a search for Tom Robbins on Amazon.com they have a listing for a book entitled Guy Anderson by Tom Robbins, a paperback written or published in 1965, about the painter . . . how come this listing is not on the Bibliography? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.153.125.47 ( talk) 20:43, 29 June 2007
It is customary to encourage the growth of articles in various ways, such as, not tagging every single unreferenced statement with a {{ fact}} template, or, allowing external links that aren't optimal to remain - in the hopes that some editor will take the hint and incorporate them as references - but until that time, the non-editing-reader can still benefit from their existence (because we have confirmed them as relevant/interesting links). – Wikipedia was started by m:Eventualists, and is a success because of that philosophy. – To that end, I'll replace the various external links in the article. (In the future – it is courteous to copy any deleted but potentially-useful information, to the talkpage, for discussion or later use.)
See also, David Foster Wallace#External links for a small article that is in a fairly good state overall, or even Charles Dickens#External links for a section that is starting to need a bit of a rethink. See also, the trivia sections guideline, that endorses retaining them for information, but discouraging them with a cleanup-template-tag.
The fansite in particular, is the 2nd google hit, and has been at or near the top of web-searches for Tom Robbins, since 1999 (wayback archive).
As regarding the article "How to write like Tom Robbins", I'll address that in detail at User talk:Noahveil later. But simply put: it is purely a COI case, not spam in the irrelevant/commercial site sense. With that in context, this needs to be addressed with good faith and assistance, not terse warnings and accusations. Welcome and assist the newcomers if you can, and especially try not to bite those that are unfamiliar with our ways and are acting in good faith. As I have since re-added the link, the COI issue is effectively nullified anyway.
Hopefully that addresses all the issues. Please reply here if there are still concerns. Thanks :) -- Quiddity ( talk) 23:34, 13 April 2008 (UTC)
The "Background" section of the article currently reads:
"In 1969, Robbins moved to La Conner, where he married for the third time, to Terri."
This seems awkward to me.
Karl gregory jones ( talk) 18:41, 14 October 2009 (UTC)
An American Road Story: this film inspired many that I know of to delve into serious matters in education and other conquests of human nature and enviornmental issues also; have supported and intervened in all walks of life. Truly apreciatiate sincerely the efforts and examples I have learned from applying myself with certain instruction taught in the film. Have a Safe Day. Greendale. Hawkmoth <|> 75.201.143.93 ( talk) 21:16, 22 November 2009 (UTC)
Robbins stated his age as 77 on the June 5, 2010 edition of "Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!" and specifically contradicted his Wikipedia article. I don't know what the protocol is for listing ages when birthdates are unknown. 72.244.206.31 ( talk) 07:43, 5 June 2010 (UTC)
I agree. You cannot take seriously a dialogue where he said that he was working on a reality show where he would feed middle-aged suburban males "magic mushrooms" and follow them around for six hours to see what happens.-- Jorfer ( talk) 01:55, 6 June 2010 (UTC)
He is obviously not 74. Obviously wrong information is not better than no information. This is an encyclopedia. CGameProgrammer ( talk) —Preceding undated comment added 00:47, 13 January 2011 (UTC).
Per instructions directly from Tom, I have updated and corrected the entire Tom Robbins Wikipedia entry. I have the great good fortune to be Tom's personal assistant. Many thanks
98.247.75.26 (
talk) 19:17, 7 February 2011 (UTC) Julie 02/07/2011.
If he was indeed born in 1936 then it seems strange that he gradiated in 1950 and went to university at age 14. If that is however correct some annotation by way of explanation might be useful.
—Preceding
unsigned comment added by
81.153.42.154 (
talk) 15:40, 7 May 2011 (UTC)
A colleague added a {{ Distinguish}} tag creating a lk to
and summarized
but the documentation on that tag declares it is to be used at
That means it is clearly limited to the WP:Dab function, and may be applied only to provide a link to a WP article that has info about the "other" TR. Thus i
Such an article would still not be pointed to by a Disting tag, but would, if retained, need an entry on some appropriate Dab -- which would be
Thomas Robbins (disambiguation), unless its scope has changed by then.
--
Jerzy•
t 00:05, 17 January 2012 (UTC)
Tom Robbins grew up in Warsaw, Virginia- not Richmond. Warsaw is in Virginia's Northern Neck region about 65 miles northeast of Richmond city. Robbins devotes several chapters of his memoir "Tibetan Peach Pie" to growing up in Warsaw and he is seen throughout the Warsaw High School yearbook for the class of 1949. That's online at https://archive.org/details/ambassadorthe1949wars Robbins visited Warsaw in October, 2015 and met with former classmates and neighbors and did a public reading from "Tibetan Peach Pie". — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:4040:1280:D700:C991:2F40:B255:CDE7 ( talk) 18:25, 17 December 2020 (UTC)
as above, I respectfully submit this tidbit
john claude krusz, phd, md dallas, tx
Is there a reason that Robbin's works are referred to as 'their' works instead of 'his' works? I saw nothing to indicate his preference for plural pronouns and he is referred to as 'he' in later sections. Is this a convention for talking about authors' works that I'm unaware of?
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They have the same last name? I'd read his mother's maiden name was Robinson, not D'Avalon. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.220.209.13 ( talk) 16:15, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
"...and featured a soundtrack by lesbian singer k.d. lang."
There's no real need for that clarification. I've rewritten it
— Preceding
unsigned comment added by
128.113.199.49 (
talk) 22:31, 8 December 2004
if the work attributed to robbins was found to be by someone else, why is it still in the list of works? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 128.147.38.10 ( talk • contribs) .
I removed the 'how to write like tom robbins' external link because it goes to a generic search page, rather than any thing remotely like what it suggests. If anyone knows the real link, please add it. I'd love to see it! Hegar 13:23, 2 February 2007 (UTC)
Now User:Irishguy has deleted the link as "spam". I've copied the link to the top of this thread, as I don't believe it is spam, but don't have time to read it and utilize it as a cited reference, currently. -- Quiddity ( talk) 21:23, 29 March 2008 (UTC)
Doing a search for Tom Robbins on Amazon.com they have a listing for a book entitled Guy Anderson by Tom Robbins, a paperback written or published in 1965, about the painter . . . how come this listing is not on the Bibliography? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.153.125.47 ( talk) 20:43, 29 June 2007
It is customary to encourage the growth of articles in various ways, such as, not tagging every single unreferenced statement with a {{ fact}} template, or, allowing external links that aren't optimal to remain - in the hopes that some editor will take the hint and incorporate them as references - but until that time, the non-editing-reader can still benefit from their existence (because we have confirmed them as relevant/interesting links). – Wikipedia was started by m:Eventualists, and is a success because of that philosophy. – To that end, I'll replace the various external links in the article. (In the future – it is courteous to copy any deleted but potentially-useful information, to the talkpage, for discussion or later use.)
See also, David Foster Wallace#External links for a small article that is in a fairly good state overall, or even Charles Dickens#External links for a section that is starting to need a bit of a rethink. See also, the trivia sections guideline, that endorses retaining them for information, but discouraging them with a cleanup-template-tag.
The fansite in particular, is the 2nd google hit, and has been at or near the top of web-searches for Tom Robbins, since 1999 (wayback archive).
As regarding the article "How to write like Tom Robbins", I'll address that in detail at User talk:Noahveil later. But simply put: it is purely a COI case, not spam in the irrelevant/commercial site sense. With that in context, this needs to be addressed with good faith and assistance, not terse warnings and accusations. Welcome and assist the newcomers if you can, and especially try not to bite those that are unfamiliar with our ways and are acting in good faith. As I have since re-added the link, the COI issue is effectively nullified anyway.
Hopefully that addresses all the issues. Please reply here if there are still concerns. Thanks :) -- Quiddity ( talk) 23:34, 13 April 2008 (UTC)
The "Background" section of the article currently reads:
"In 1969, Robbins moved to La Conner, where he married for the third time, to Terri."
This seems awkward to me.
Karl gregory jones ( talk) 18:41, 14 October 2009 (UTC)
An American Road Story: this film inspired many that I know of to delve into serious matters in education and other conquests of human nature and enviornmental issues also; have supported and intervened in all walks of life. Truly apreciatiate sincerely the efforts and examples I have learned from applying myself with certain instruction taught in the film. Have a Safe Day. Greendale. Hawkmoth <|> 75.201.143.93 ( talk) 21:16, 22 November 2009 (UTC)
Robbins stated his age as 77 on the June 5, 2010 edition of "Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!" and specifically contradicted his Wikipedia article. I don't know what the protocol is for listing ages when birthdates are unknown. 72.244.206.31 ( talk) 07:43, 5 June 2010 (UTC)
I agree. You cannot take seriously a dialogue where he said that he was working on a reality show where he would feed middle-aged suburban males "magic mushrooms" and follow them around for six hours to see what happens.-- Jorfer ( talk) 01:55, 6 June 2010 (UTC)
He is obviously not 74. Obviously wrong information is not better than no information. This is an encyclopedia. CGameProgrammer ( talk) —Preceding undated comment added 00:47, 13 January 2011 (UTC).
Per instructions directly from Tom, I have updated and corrected the entire Tom Robbins Wikipedia entry. I have the great good fortune to be Tom's personal assistant. Many thanks
98.247.75.26 (
talk) 19:17, 7 February 2011 (UTC) Julie 02/07/2011.
If he was indeed born in 1936 then it seems strange that he gradiated in 1950 and went to university at age 14. If that is however correct some annotation by way of explanation might be useful.
—Preceding
unsigned comment added by
81.153.42.154 (
talk) 15:40, 7 May 2011 (UTC)
A colleague added a {{ Distinguish}} tag creating a lk to
and summarized
but the documentation on that tag declares it is to be used at
That means it is clearly limited to the WP:Dab function, and may be applied only to provide a link to a WP article that has info about the "other" TR. Thus i
Such an article would still not be pointed to by a Disting tag, but would, if retained, need an entry on some appropriate Dab -- which would be
Thomas Robbins (disambiguation), unless its scope has changed by then.
--
Jerzy•
t 00:05, 17 January 2012 (UTC)
Tom Robbins grew up in Warsaw, Virginia- not Richmond. Warsaw is in Virginia's Northern Neck region about 65 miles northeast of Richmond city. Robbins devotes several chapters of his memoir "Tibetan Peach Pie" to growing up in Warsaw and he is seen throughout the Warsaw High School yearbook for the class of 1949. That's online at https://archive.org/details/ambassadorthe1949wars Robbins visited Warsaw in October, 2015 and met with former classmates and neighbors and did a public reading from "Tibetan Peach Pie". — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:4040:1280:D700:C991:2F40:B255:CDE7 ( talk) 18:25, 17 December 2020 (UTC)
as above, I respectfully submit this tidbit
john claude krusz, phd, md dallas, tx
Is there a reason that Robbin's works are referred to as 'their' works instead of 'his' works? I saw nothing to indicate his preference for plural pronouns and he is referred to as 'he' in later sections. Is this a convention for talking about authors' works that I'm unaware of?