Talk:Cheiro

message: After doing an initial google search with 'Chiero' it seems there are lots of references to him as a psychic, seer, in association with Mark Twain, and others... Also links to holistic health centres, open books, and other sites not quite pertaining to the man Count Louis Hamon. The Preface is a pulp outline of his life and is unsigned by the contributor...
I'm going to copy out the Preface from the book verbatim, and go from there. I suppose there is always copyright to consider. All the links to websites and cut and paste articles and such... i dont know. I notice that the Publication of Darwin's theory has only one reference point; a book about Darwin. So I thought it ok to do the same here... copy verbatim. In light of the Darwin link, I am going to place the pseudoscience link in immediately so as not to seem like I am trying to peddle a view that numerology is hard science. Darwinism is hard to refute but that is another topic.I will make a few links to keywords in the preface to other wikipedia links.
There is a pencil sketch portrait of Hamon, I assume, opposite the title page of the book signed by 'R.O. Dunlop' ???
The tone of the preface is obviously celebratory (designed for pulp-readers?), but having it conform to the wikipedia NPOV rules will take some editing work. I'll put the NPOV at the header to highlight this fact.
So it begins... Feel free to add or completely change this content on a 'modern' contributor to numerology, palmistry and other arts.
I'm going to just set up a few sections and see what others do with it all.
Best of luck everyone
Peace and harmony Drakonicon 16:01, 19 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Notes

message: That uninformed "citation needed" tag really bugged me, so, with a little searching, it was rectified. The evidence of Cheiro's famous clients is to be found in his own memoir, "Reminiscenses of a Society Palmist," which happens to still be in print. It even contains a glowing review of Cheiro's accuracy from none other than Mark Twain. So there you go. The article has been improved, the sad "citation needed" tag has been pulled down, and the wrld marches on.
:The tags may be annoying, but they're vital. Any unsourced statement may be removed — that's how important citing sources is. The tags just indicate that an editor felt that the claim could use a source to verify it, which is very important on Wikipedia where anyone can say anything and pass it off as truth (see Wikipedia:Verifiability). At any rate, thank you for sourcing the statement. Samuel Grant 13:07, 29 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Found the citation, removed the now superfluous tag 

message: I recall reading in one of Cheiro's works that, in 1914, he conducted a number of consultations, over a short period of time, with an apparently random group of men, whose hands all "told" him that they were about to die. Apparently Cheiro became very angry, supposing that he had been "set up" by one or more of his professional rivals, as a joke, and that those rivals had each selected from their own clientele a man or men, whose hands had "said" they they were going to die. Whilst I can't recall whether or not Cheiro continued to read this sequence of palms until the last, I do recall him stating that he later discovered that all of the men had come to him of their own volition, and without the knowledge of the others, and that they were all members of the same regiment. The regiment was one of the first to fight in Europe, and the men who had visited him all died within a very short time of landing in Europe. Can anyone, please, locate this story for me in a published work of Cheiro (or some other person)?. Thank you.129.94.117.150 (talk) 00:00, 9 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  World War I 

message: This article desperately needs improvements. Only one reference for such a long article is unacceptable.
If half of this biography is true then sources should be found easily.
MakeSense64 (talk) 11:29, 8 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  improve 

message: Throughout his career "Cheiro" robbed many hundreds of people, and he was subjected to several police investigations as well as being revealed as a confidence man and "charlatan." Why is none of that included? --Desertphile (talk) 03:26, 28 November 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  No mention of his many victims?