Talk: Mark Twain
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Move to Langhorn
Let's move the article to Samuel Langhorn Clemens, and redirect there from Mark Twain. --Ed Poor
- I think its best at this place - Mark Twain is the vastly more familiar name... Martin
- I'd like to see it moved to Samuel Clemens... but that's just me.
- Well, Samuel Clemens redirects to this article. But I think far more people know him as "Mark Twain" than by his given name. —Frecklefoot 16:42, 11 Mar 2004 (UTC)
Link with absolutely no context
www.xlibris.com/MeetMarkTwain.html
Link removed
Why was this link removed?
Mark Twain's brief biography and works
I looked at it and thought it was pretty good. —Frecklefoot 17:04, 2 Feb 2004 (UTC)
Box?
Does Twain's picture need to be in that box/table? It takes up a lot of room and it doesn't add any information that's not in the first sentence of the article. Apparently it's some sort of template, but I can't find any discussion of it anywhere else. P. Riis 03:39, 20 Oct 2004 (UTC)
OK, I found it: it's called Infox_Biography, and the talk page is here. Apparently there was a battle over having it on Charles Darwin and they eventually got rid of it. P. Riis 04:19, 20 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Bipolar disorder: sure, but not without a reference
I'm quite prepared to believe that Mark Twain had bipolar disorder, but this should not go in the article without a reference. "Many attribute some of Twain’s extraordinary abilities" just isn't good enough. The article has to say who makes this attribution and which abilities are attributed to the disorder. Accordingly, I'm reverting the article until someone can give a proper reference. See Wikipedia:Cite your sources Dpbsmith (talk) 15:02, 28 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- Good call. I suspect it came from Kay Redfield Jamison's Touched by Fire. She has an appendix in the book in which she lists a large group of people who she suspects to have suffered from "Probable Cyclothymia, Major Depression, or Manic-Depressive Illness" which includes Twain. It's completely unwarranted to go from that to the bald statment "Mark Twain had Bipolar Disorder." Also, this particular user is pasting the same biolerplate into a long list of biographies, without even changing the pronoun gender for females. P. RIIS 15:28, 28 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- Yeah, in fact I own a copy of Touched by Fire, but it's not handy at this instant. I'd be perfectly happy with a sentence saying "Kay Redfield Jamison includes Mark Twain on a list of ... " whatever. And she and Touched by Fire are IMHO more than notable enough to warrant articles if we haven't got them already... let's see whether I get red links. But even to go from "Kay Redfield Jamison attributes" to "many attribute" is unjustified. Dpbsmith (talk) 16:16, 28 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Do we know if he was a Republican or a Democrat?
