Talk:Thomas Branch

Questionable notability

He wrote a textbook and we know nothing else about him. His notability is questionable.LogicalFinance33 (talk) 04:42, 20 October 2011 (UTC)

Well, he wrote two books. "The Thoughts on Dreaming" is discussed in the paper referenced, and, a google scholar search, indicates, here []. There's a contemporary review on p 508 here

"Principia" was still in print 70 years after it's first publication, and seems to have been a well-known work. I've added another reference from James Kent's "Commentaries on American Law" (1832). Richard Preston in "An essay in a course of lectures on abstracts of title" says it "contains more Law and more useful matter than any one book of the same size which can be put into the hand of the students." Charles Warren in "A History of the American Bar" (1911) calls it "A little book, much used", and there's an account of it on p 54 Lawyer's Merriments by David Murray (rep 2005).

And of couse Branch is in the Dictionary of National Biography, which, in spite of its eccentricities is itself some indication of notability.Ruskinmonkey (talk) 12:11, 9 December 2011 (UTC)

The page looks better; good work. You should try to add a sentence about what makes him notable in the lead as well to go along with Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Lead section. LogicalFinance33 (talk) 21:09, 10 December 2011 (UTC)

Done. -Arch dude (talk) 01:46, 3 January 2012 (UTC)