Talk:Tom Robbins

message: 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)
thread_title:  Mr. Robbins' wife and mother 

message: 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've commented it out (but left it in the code so that it doesnt get re-added). It should probably be placed into a prose section of the article eventually. -Quiddity 16:38, 4 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  partial list of works 

message: *How to Write Like Tom Robbins - by Michael Dare
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)
replies: text: Not sure what's going on there, the link works fine for me. Maybe a temporary hiccup? I've replaced it for now. --Quiddity 18:02, 2 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removed 'how to write like tom robbins' link. 

message: It is customary to encourage the growth of articles in various ways, such as, not tagging every single unreferenced statement with a  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)
thread_title:  External links 

message: 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.
* "Third time", without reference to previous marriages.
* "Terri", without last name or other reference to her as a person.
* Doesn't this belong in "Personal life" section, rather than "Background" ...?
Karl gregory jones (talk) 18:41, 14 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wives? 

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thread_title:  Anthem 

message: A colleague added a  tag creating a lk to 
: Tom Robbins, New York City journalist, active since the late 1960s
and summarized 
: Add Distinguish tag for another Tom Robbins who is an American noted for being a professional writer, more precisely a journalist.
but the documentation on that tag declares it is to be used at
:Top of articles with only one alternative meaning and no disambiguation page.
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 
# have removed the markup to this talk page, 
# note that if reliable sources have deemed it necessary, in their own discussions of the author, to make distinctions that they are not talking about the journalist, that will provide a basis for discussing on this page whether the confusion is a notable fact about the author that should be included in the prose of the accompanying article on the author (Note that if that is the most notable thing about the journalist, it is merely evidence that the journalist should not have an article on WP.), and
# suggest that those interested in the journalist consider working on a bio article, with reliable sources, at Tom Robbins (journalist), which will provide a basis for considering the journalist's possible notability.
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)
thread_title:  Confusion w/ journalist 

message: 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)
thread_title:  Tom Robbins Virginia childhood home 

message: 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?
Shmuelic (talk) 23:24, 7 April 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Plural pronouns