Talk:Charles Fort

message: "Fort also had a small circle of literary friends and they would gather on occasion at various apartments, including his own, to drink and talk, which was tolerated by Anna."
This is a very peculiar phrase. Do we know that Anna "tolerated" these gatherings? For all we know she enjoyed hosting her husband's friends. Methinks whoever wrote this phrase might be injecting their own personality in a place where objectivity and NPOV is called for. Kerry (talk) 23:26, 4 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Citation Needed

message: It seems to me that Fort was something of an early postmodern. Would this be a valid characterisation?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 139.57.235.123 (talk) 04:35, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: No. Pernoctus (talk) 21:06, 7 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fort as a "postmodern" 

message: Actually, rain of meat, frog and fish are well stablished facts these days. They have happened recently, are documented and there are scientific explanations to account for them. The meat is basically cattle taken by a whirlwind and butchered in the sky. They are all frozen, which is indicative of the high altitudes they are taken to.
201.79.81.239 14:14, 25 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rain of fish 

message: Shouldn't the Anna Filing article be merged with this one?  She doesn't strike me as being notable enough to have a page of her own. —Meidosemme 01:37, 10 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Some of us believe that every soul who has ever lived is notable enough to have a page of their own, so long as that page remains purely NPOV. --Chr.K. 08:24, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Anna Filing 

message: A link provided in the page connects to The Book of the Damned; however, there is another, more detailed page concerning the same work, entitled Book of the Damned (more detailed, but inaccurate in title).  These two should be merged. --Chr.K. 08:27, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Twin pages on books 

message: IP addresses 194.205.219.0 - 194.205.219.255 are registered to Dennis Publishing.
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--Hu12 19:55, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Or to summarise the above someone from a Dennis Publishing IP address has been adding a lot of links to Dennis titles and caused spamming concerns. Due to WP:COI reasons I can't add them back but the edit is  - as mentioned another reference went, Kaplan The Damned Universe of Charles Fort. I don't know that one so can't really comment on adding it back in. As I said above it is up to the editors of the entry to decide what is relevant, however, could I just point out that the Fortean Times site moved the other day and the links are broken. I checked a couple and they are there but have moved. I have been told this will be addressed (I hope so as I have a lot of broken bookmarks at the moment) but bear it in mind if you do anything as it'd be pointless adding back a broken link ;) (Emperor 20:58, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Dennis Publishing spam on Wikipedia 

message: I have put nowiki tags around http://www.pokerplayermagazine.co.uk on this talk page because edits to this talk page were rejected by the spam filter.--Patrick (talk) 13:37, 13 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Spam filter 

message: There appears to be some missing material in the fourth paragraph of the Biography section. It looks like possibly a botched edit. I've put a note about it in the article. Maybe somebody will notice it and fix it. Lou Sander (talk) 15:57, 13 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Well spotted - looking back through the edits it looks like a chunk was snipped out at random, along with other messy edits . Editors clearly stepped in to tidy it up but it should have been reverted. Your best bet is to take the original content and put it back in (just check for more recent additions - although it looks to be OK). (Emperor (talk) 16:13, 13 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I did a quick job of fixing it, though the whole section still doesn't look quite right to my non-expert eyes. Lou Sander (talk) 19:18, 13 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I think that has done the job - good stuff. (Emperor (talk) 21:42, 13 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Missing material - editing error? 

message: There seems to be a discrepancy here...
Last line of Biography:
His more than 60,000 notes were donated to the New York Public Library.
Second paragraph of Fort and the Unexplained > Overview:
...he is said to have compiled as many as 40,000 notes, though there were no doubt many more than this. The notes were kept on cards in shoeboxes. They were taken on small squares of paper, in a cramped shorthand of Fort's own invention, and some of them survive today in the collections of the University of Pennsylvania.
It's been there since the September 6, 2006 edit.
Elmyr (talk) 06:06, 7 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fort's Notes 

message: The link "Forteana" under "See Also" refers back to this page; in other words, the page links to itself.  I assume this isn't intentional for any reason? --DustFormsWords (talk) 23:12, 11 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: No, it's probably an old link to an article which became a redirect. Get rid of it if you like. Totnesmartin (talk) 10:21, 3 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Done DustFormsWords (talk) 03:35, 29 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Recursive Link 

message: In the Popular Culture section it says [citation needed] for the following passge, to which I've added two new sentences. 
"Paul Thomas Anderson, the director and writer of the critically acclaimed film Magnolia, is a fan of Fort and many aspects of the film were inspired by his books. Character Stanley Spector has one of Fort's books in the library scene. Frogs falling from the sky at the film's climax is a phenomenon Fort wrote about.[citation needed]"
This can be verified by watching the film or visiting the trivia section of its imdb.com entry.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0175880/trivia where it states:
One of the books Stanley is reading at the library is about scientist Charles Fort, who is noted for his work expanding the boundaries of scientific research to include strange phenomena such as those featured in the film.
The title "Magnolia" not only refers to Magnolia Blvd in LA, where much of the movie takes place, but is also similar to the term Charles Fort (who is referenced many places in this movie) coined for a hypothetical region where things that fall from the sky come from - "Magonia".
Paul Thomas Anderson has said that he was unaware that the story of frogs falling from the sky is in the Bible (he took it from Charles Fort's writing) when he wrote the screenplay. Christinebeatty (talk) 03:09, 3 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Citation provided 

message: Revision as of 15:41, 21 February 2009 
TootsMojo 
(founders of the Fortean Society) 
(Difference between this and previous revision) 
  The board of Founders included Dreiser, Hecht, [[Booth
  Tarkington]], Aaron Sussman, John Cowper Powys, the
  former editor of "Puck" [Harry Leon Wilson, Woolcott and J.
  David Stern.
There is no closing square bracket to match the open square
bracket before "Harry Leon Wilson".  If we remove the bracket,
the sentence would say that Harry Leon Wilson was a former
editor of "Puck".  But the article on "Puck" does not mention
Wilson.  Where did TootsMojo get the board of Founders?
--Cootiequits (talk) 18:26, 3 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  No closing square bracket to match "[Harry Leon Wilson". 

message: "Like most good Bronx residents, Fort would frequent the nearby parks where he would sift through piles of his clippings."
I grew up in the Bronx, and I never frequented nearby parks to sift through piles of clippings.  Perhaps I wasn't a good Bronx resident.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.147.119.14 (talk) 22:16, 23 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Life in the Bronx 

message: I can see why the popular culture section was removed  as it had got horribly bloated with some very trivial mentions but some of those (the much earlier core, that I had a hand in) seem worth mentioning but possibly as part of his legacy rather than simply a pop culture section (which are largely discouraged: WP:POPCULTURE). Thoughts? (Emperor (talk) 02:48, 8 January 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Great idea, if they can be tied into the text. --Malleus Fatuorum 02:57, 8 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Popular culture/legacy 

message: This article says Charles Fort wrote four books, but the info about him in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paranormal_phenomena#Anecdotal_approach says he wrote seven, but only four survived.  Which claim is true, or are they both wrong?--TechnoDanny (talk) 18:13, 22 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Books Written 

message: In the section "The Forteans," there is a line that reads "In Chapter 1 of Book of the Damned, Fort states that the ideal is to be neither a 'True Believer' nor a total 'Skeptic' but 'that the truth lies somewhere in between'."
This might be a reasonably fair summary of Fort's position, but that quote appears nowhere in The Book of the Damned.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.111.162.65 (talk) 22:37, 24 February 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: I have a Kindle version of The Book of the Damned and did a search for "skeptic" and there were no occurances. I also tried searching for other words in the sentence, in case there was some quote that was more or less like that but with different spelling or other minor differences and didn't find anything so I think the appropriate thing to do is just remove that paragraph which I just did. Thanks for spotting it. --MadScientistX11 (talk) 16:49, 25 February 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Spurious quote 

message: Under:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Fort#Biography
The last sentence of the fifth paragraph seems to require a citation:
"The title referred to "damned" data that Fort collected, phenomena for which science could not account and was thus rejected or ignored.[citation needed]"
Such a citation may be:
"When The Book of the Damned was completed, wary editors read the opening lines and held their noses:
A procession of the damned.
By the damned, I mean the excluded.
We shall have a procession of data that Science has excluded.
Battalions of the accursed, captained by pallid data that I have exhumed, will march. You'll
read them – or they'll march. Some of them livid and some of them fiery and some of them
rotten."
From:
Disneyland of the Gods, Copyright © 1988 by John A. Keel
http://www.galaksija.com/literatura/disneyland.pdf
Spiffytoad (talk) 09:38, 13 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Possible Citation 

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