Talk:James Alexander Thom

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Links to references

Myers, D. G. (1984-10-07). "From Sea to Shining Sea". The New York Times. The New York Times Company. Retrieved 1 February 2010.
"Part III: The way the 'old folks' taught". Electric Consumer. 2007-07-19. Retrieved 2010-02-01.
"James Alexander Thom". Ball State University. Retrieved 1 February 2010. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |work= (help)
Hamm, Alison (2008-01-27). "A conversation with James Alexander and Dark Rain Thom". The Bloomington Alternative. Retrieved 1 February 2010.

Liquidluck✽talk 08:45, 1 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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James Alexander Thom passed away in Owen County, Indiana on Monday, January 30, 2023. The Herald-Times reported the news on February 2, 2023. Jrijr (talk) 21:53, 2 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Done – small jars tc 23:14, 2 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Please add the following book to the list of Mr. Thom's works: Fire in the Water (a novel based on the explosion of the steamboat Sultana while carrying 2000 freed Union soldiers in 1865) (Blue River Press, 2016)

Source--https://www.amazon.com/Fire-Water-James-Alexander-Thom/dp/1681570289 68.58.124.101 (talk) 04:52, 1 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Done Lewcm Talk to me! 11:21, 15 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Long struggle

The history of this article is interesting. It has struggled for 20 years, since 2005. Mostly due to IP editors adding Copyright Violations and/or unsourced text written by editors with an obvious COI. As a result it has languished mostly as a stub with a few sentences of banal content and a list of works with incorrect publication dates. It's kind of unfortunate, because Google searching finds a number of excellent reliable sources that greatly expand his life. I wanted to get these sources into the article and thus captured by the WaybackMachine because he died only 2 years ago and stuff like this can quickly disappear from the web. There is a long article in the Chicago Tribune and some other pieces that are really good. This article has been greatly expanded and improved according to Wikipedia best practices.

There was an indef semi-protection added in 2015, due to a years-long problem with COI IPs adding personal information. It was a good idea that stopped all that nonsense. That was 10 years ago, and with Thom now dead, I wonder if it's still needed. I don't know if anyone wants to experiment lifting the restriction for a while, it can always be re-added. @FreeRangeFrog:. -- GreenC 18:58, 18 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]