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A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on September 25, 2008.

The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that multiple book reviews have referred to Raven: The Untold Story of the Rev. Jim Jones and His People as the definitive book on Jim Jones and the Peoples Temple?

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Additional sources to use in the article[edit]

"Raven". CHOICE: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries: 1007. March 1, 1983.
"Raven". Best Sellers: 437. February 1983.
"Raven". The New York Times Book Review. 88. The New York Times Company: 9. December 26, 1982.
Gold, Herbert (December 12, 1982). "Raven". Los Angeles Times. p. 2.
"Raven". San Francisco Review of Books: 18. November 1, 1982.
"Raven". Library Journal. 107: 1890. October 1, 1982.
Goodman, Hal (October 1, 1982). "Raven". Psychology Today. 16: 84–85.
"Raven". Publishers Weekly. 222: 49. September 3, 1982.
"Raven". Kirkus Reviews: 985. August 15, 1982.
Evanier, David (April 16, 1982). "Raven". National Review. 34: 428–430.

I will expand the article utilizing these sources and others, just won't be able to get to it immediately. Cirt (talk) 02:10, 19 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Some of these may be used already but there might be some additional citable material there as well, will go back and recheck later. Cirt (talk) 09:03, 25 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Research section[edit]

Cirt, by the way, great job on the article.

On the Research section, if you have the book, Reiterman describes this on Preface pages xiv and xv. I can add a sentence or two, but I don't know if including Raven as a source for this sort of fact directly about the book still would run afoul of reliable sources. Also, the book contains 30 pages (pp. 581-610) of small fonted descriptions of notes and sources, including large numbers of people interviewed, documents, audio tapes, etc. Mosedschurte 05:06, 19 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I think it's best if we avoid using the book itself as a primary reference as much as possible, though we can revisit that. I am trying to find other secondary sources which discuss the research for the book. Cirt (talk) 05:08, 19 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your work Cirt, your searching capabilities are apparently much stronger than my own :-) Keeper ǀ 76 14:29, 19 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. Cirt (talk) 09:07, 25 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]