Talk:Tom Robbins

Mr. Robbins' wife and mother

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)

soundtrack

"...and featured a soundtrack by lesbian singer k.d. lang."

There's no real need for that clarification. I've rewritten it

partial list of works

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)

Removed 'how to write like tom robbins' link.

• 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)

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)

Now User:Irishguy has deleted the link as "spam". I've copied the link to the top of this thread, as I don't believe it is spam, but don't have time to read it and utilize it as a cited reference, currently. -- Quiddity (talk) 21:23, 29 March 2008 (UTC)

Incomplete Bibliography

Doing a search for Tom Robbins on Amazon.com they have a listing for a book entitled Guy Anderson by Tom Robbins, a paperback written or published in 1965, about the painter . . . how come this listing is not on the Bibliography? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 24.153.125.47 (talk)

Probably because it's obscure. It should definitely be there... why don't you add it?!? MPS 21:14, 29 June 2007 (UTC)

There's no mention at this fairly extensive bibliography. It might be by another person with the same name? If you can confirm it is by this Tom Robbins, then add it. --Quiddity 22:23, 29 June 2007 (UTC)

Robbins mentions it in a smithsonian interview... link MPS 22:35, 29 June 2007 (UTC)

TOM ROBBINS: Um hmm.

MARTHA KINGSBURY: Where?

TOM ROBBINS: In Richmond, Virginia, at a school that at that time was known as Richmond Professional Institute of the College of William and Mary. It was a division of William and Mary, but completely separate. It was sixty miles away from the William and Mary campus which was in Williamsburg. It was essentially a professional school of art, drama, and music. And it was very exciting; it was so different from Washington and Lee [Robbins's first college--Ed.], with all the fraternities and the Joe College atmosphere.

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MARTHA KINGSBURY: You wrote some other kinds of things, like the piece on Guy Anderson. As we were saying earlier off the tape, you could have been an art historian in a sense also.

TOM ROBBINS: Yeah. I like to think of myself as a fiction writer who liked art enough to write about it for a while, and then went on to his fiction. I think there are others, people like Donal Barthelme, Robert Coover, and John Ashbery, other novelists and short story writers and poets who also happen to like art a lot and write about it from time to time. And I'd rather be identified with that group than with a group of real critics, like Rosenberg and Fried and...

External links

It is customary to encourage the growth of articles in various ways, such as, not tagging every single unreferenced statement with a {{fact}} 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)

Wives?

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)

Anthem

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