Talk:Ben Thompson (lawman)

message: User BMT outright removed some accurate and relevant information that I sourced from news articles.  I would like this article to remain neutral and would like to point out that for a peculiar reason the user BMT feels that he has a vested interest in this article (because that user's name is in fact Ben Thompson too).  Please, check the sources as I assure you they are correct.--TheEditor20 15:43, 9 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: MrEditor20, This citation's article does not appear on its website (http://www.freenewmexican.com) and is highly questionable. I have removed the content, you can provide a suitable, genuine, non-trivial source. If you wish to experiment with Wikipedia then you can use the Sandbox but the encyclopaedia is not a toy or a soapbox. --BMT 16:02, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

text: Hosting a file on a file hosting website is hardly anything approaching verifiable information. Please link or cite a reputable source or please stop vandalizing this page. Also, I'd like to defend BMT who has obviously kept his cool, and I would like to point out that TheEditor20 has a very low comprehension of WP:CIVIL. JHMM13  18:00, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

text: I've changed the offending section I hope we can agree that it is sourced reliably, neutral, encyclopaedic in tone etc. etc. Hopefully we can move on from this and with any luck, no one will notice that its probably a candidate for WP:LAME --BMT 17:00, 10 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Legend 

message: I do not believe the information from http://ddfa.org/kingfisher.html is verifiable and reliable data.  I therefore cast doubt on the factural accuracy of this section.  The source has now moved to http://www.ccchaney.com/Damron/kingfisher.html
Much of the information here is poorly/not sourced itself, and looks like a child's essay.  There are a few sources, but there are certainly no citations to reference how the sources were used.
http://members.aol.com/Gibson0817/Thompson.htm?  How is that considered by any means reliable verifiable information?  User BMT can't provide newspapers and major publications to support his information, whereas I can (for the legend section).
--TheEditor20 09:13, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I provided these sources mainly because they are secondary, online, verifiable sources. If you refer to Further Reading you will notice that there are many authorities sources that studied the lives of gunfighters as opposed to the Santa Fe New Mexican which is a tertiary source that is not verifiable and doubted by me and others in the community; even if the source were authentic then it would hardly be authoritative, they are hardly experts on the subject.  --BMT 09:35, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Murder 

message: Too much detail is given to Billy Thompson's exploits in NV before Masterson goes to rescue him. He is only Ben Thompson's younger brother; the material should be summarized, if included at all. This is UNDUE WEIGHT, which WIKI MOS discourages.Parkwells (talk) 16:47, 30 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Undue weight for Billy Thompson

message: Clearly there are fans among editors contributing to articles on the Old West, but these men were gunmen and every shot they took does not have to be listed. They were young men with guns, so they shot them. Sounds much too familiar.Parkwells (talk) 16:47, 30 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Too much detail on gunfights

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: Ben was a gambler and gambling hall operator, who, later in life, worked as a lawman. And some books call him a gunfighter. See page 115 at https://books.google.ca/books?id=QY73Y14TevAC&pg=PA114&lpg=PA114&dq=ben+thompson+deadwood+gambler&source=bl&ots=saYju_Yj_J&sig=ACfU3U3H_PADi03iSmo7p26h9FcUCCLHwA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjsycGu4dLpAhUhnuAKHUZXCAAQ6AEwA3oECAgQAQ#v=onepage&q=ben%20thompson%20deadwood%20gambler&f=false 
Or page 114, which calls him a gunman and known killer.
Peter K Burian (talk) 01:45, 27 May 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why does the title refer to him as a lawman?