Talk:Joseph Cheesman Thompson

message: I have uploaded stuff for further research temporarly on http://home.snafu.de/tilman/tmp/SNAKE.TXT . It contains one or two publications by him. One might verify these in a library and improve the article, if wished. --Tilman 17:56, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
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message: This page seems to have been created purely to satisfy the needs of followers of the Scientology religion.  While interesting as his life story is, Dr Cressman is incredibly non-notable and this article reads like an advertisement of sorts.  67.84.230.100 (talk) 00:13, 28 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I believe there is enough independent coverage for Thompson to pass notability criteria - as founder of the San Diego Zoological Society and originator of the Burmese cat breed. However, the article does have copyright violation issues. Even though the copy-pasted sections have attributions, they are far too extensive. As well, the text in the last section which is sourced to William Silas follow his original text so closely, it crosses the line into plagiarism. It is advisable to rewrite the article, from scratch, using only original text and no copypastes.  — CactusWriter | needles 21:08, 6 June 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I looked over the material in the last section and do not see where it constitutes plagiarism, after comparing it to Silas Warner's paper. I did quote briefly from various other sources, too,  but all are attributed, and all the quotes have quotation marks around them.S. M. Sullivan (talk) 00:24, 7 June 2009 (UTC)
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message: I Have found nothing linking Joseph Cheesman Thompson to the incident in Shanghai but some similarity in the name and some strange hagiography interests.
https://books.google.se/books?id=0a7UAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA216&lpg=PA216&dq=slapping+incident+japan&source=bl&ots=mC0147AMCi&sig=3TQR40NJRdlOuUgiLBkyuYwJB-8&hl=sv&sa=X&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=slapping%20incident%20japan&f=false
The J C Thompson mentioned in media was a professor at the chemical department at the university, his son https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_C._Thomson_Jr. Here.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by A-Bee-Honey (talk • contribs) 12:12, 7 October 2018 (UTC)
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message: "Raised in Japan by a missionary father, Thompson spoke fluent Japanese and brushed up"
I have found no references whatsoever to a missionary father. His fathers statements in Japan to the consular registration tells a  rather different story: "That in the year 1901, my health being broken, I was compelled to seek a change of climate, and came to Nagasaki, Japan, where,  finding climatic conditions suited to malady (anemia and nervous disorder)"  Thomas Jackson Thompson Nagasaki Japan 1907. 
To me this tells nothing about a childhood in Japan rather expressing his fathers mission in the fields of neurasthenia. 
Joseph Cheesman Thompson was an assistant curator in herpetology, a position that ended abruptly... and the aftermath seems to be this extraordinary notes from one of the heavy in the fields Herpetology: Thomas Barbour:
A most regretable tangle of names
https://www.worldcat.org/title/most-regretable-tangle-of-names/oclc/904009095?referer=br&ht=edition
"Thompson then threatened the officers of the Academy with injunctions and suits for damages,etc" and it seems that he tried to take the discoveries of others to honor himself. It appears "Crazy", but not truly missionary. 
The images of Thompson some want to paint seems to come from hard to find thriller literature rather than verifiable fact, or?
A-Bee-Honey (talk) 13:13, 14 October 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Background and Science in essence & how Weak nerves runs in the family