Talk:Evan Thomas

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About adding in that DiscoverTheNetworks.org link[edit]

I'm sure I'll catch some grief for adding that link in, but it has a lot of information in it that you can't find in the Newsweek bio. Don't delete it unless you can find me a significant factual error in it. It makes for a good balance against the unambiguously positive Newsweek bio. Zongalt 21:32, 1 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

That's not how it works, here. We don't link to unreliable sources. Please remove it, and source it's important facts elsewhere. Thanks. Hipocrite - «Talk» 18:55, 9 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I disagree with you. I'd like to see why you consider the source "unreliable" necessarily. It has an editorial agenda certainly, but the same can be said of many sources linked to on wikipedia.com. In fact all that I've done is link to the discoverthenetworks Evan Thomas page. I didn't rely on it for anything I've added to the article (beyond the month/year of birth). In the spirit of not starting a silly edit war, I won't add the link back in just now, but I will add it back later unless you can show me something about that link that's unfair or inaccurate to support your claim of it being an "unreliable" source. Zongalt 22:10, 25 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Reverted[edit]

I went ahead and reverted this article to its old version prior to the copyright violation. Zongalt 14:56, 8 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Wasn't me![edit]

I just noticed that whoever expanded this article just did a stupid little cut and paste of Newsweek's bio. I feel dumb now for inserting those links into it! But I wasn't the one who did the expanding. Just for the record! Zongalt 06:27, 29 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Something wrong[edit]

The first two sentences don't make sense: "since 1991 he has been the Assistant Managing Editor at Newsweek. Thomas then left for Newsweek where..."SHJohnson (talk) 04:53, 6 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

WP:BLP violations[edit]

Three (or one) editors, are attempting repeatedly to add information which lacks significant sourcing, regarding the private life of the article subject. Such edits violate Wikipedia policies on biographies, WP:BIO, Bios of the living WP:BLP, WP:CITE, WP:NOTE, and probably others, but the BLP is the most important. adding libel to a page is absolutely not tolerated. As such, any further efforts to add this information without adequate discussion on htis talk page, and full citation will be reverted as vandalism. Do not re-add it. ThuranX (talk) 21:31, 9 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

If you're referring to the assertion that Evan Thomas is the grandson of Socialist Party presidential candidate Norman Thomas, this appears to be confirmed by Evan Thomas himself. In the January 23rd, 2008 issue of Princeton Alumni Weekly, Evan Thomas published an article profiling his grandfather Norman Thomas, who was a Princeton alumnus. http://paw.princeton.edu/issues/2008/01/23/pages/9475/index.xml I presume that this is adequate sourcing, and will add it to the article. Agarcialw (talk) 21:25, 12 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

this ad hominem attack on the family tree is amusing, the works speak for the author. Pohick2 (talk) 02:34, 19 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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