Talk:Jackson Turner Main
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[edit]New sources and added content welcomed. -- Gwillhickers (talk) 22:03, 8 April 2023 (UTC)
Prabook
[edit]@Kuru: — Thanks for checking into this article. One thing, however, which I'm not clear on, is why you do not consider Prabook to be a reliable source. It is a trade mark of the World Biographical Encyclopedia, Inc.. In any case I've hidden the statement about J.T.Main being in the Army Air Corp which was cited by Prabook, until we either can clear this up, or find another citation for the statement. -- Gwillhickers (talk) 20:40, 9 April 2023 (UTC)
- Prabook is a Belarusian self-publishing platform/open wiki for biographies (with a fake NY address). Most of the original material was scraped from other published sources without regard for copyright (including material from Wikipedia). You can read previous RSN duscussions: , , , . At best, it's user-generated or scraped junk of unknown origin; at worst, it's linking to blatant copyright violations. Sam Kuru (talk) 21:05, 9 April 2023 (UTC)
- Wow, ' didn't realize all this. Thanks for the 'low-down' I'll continue hunting around for other sources and see what else I can come up with. Evidently Jackson Turner Main, though an accomplished historian, is not nearly as renown as his grandfather was i.e.Frederick Jackson Turner, who wrote the acclaimed / controversial Frontier Thesis, so finding biographical info has been difficult. Many thanks for looking out. -- Gwillhickers (talk) 03:37, 10 April 2023 (UTC)