Talk:S. W. Erdnase

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Navy.enthusiast (talk) 23:40, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

Broken URL

The Todd Karr URL was broken at this hour.Navy.enthusiast (talk) 17:34, 6 January 2008 (UTC)

Tracked "Is This Erdnase?" to new web URL and corrected citation. Navy.enthusiast (talk) 13:16, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

Hoffman?

Further evidence suggests that Millikan and Stratton hired Professor Hoffman to write the book based (partly) on notes they provided.

Besides being uncited, there’s no antecedent for “Hoffman.” Who is he? —crism (talk) 17:51, 14 January 2008 (UTC)

Milton Andrews not Erdnase? Bad References

Without reference, this article dismisses the most heavily researched effort into Erdnase's identity: The Man Who Was Erdnase by Barton Whaley. I just read the book and the case it makes is compelling, especially the eyewitness interviews from the 1940s. In particular, I think the argument that Andrews could not have written Expert at the Card Table because its prose is of a higher quality than a letter he dashed off to a newspaper is specious. Even still, this issue is discussed in Whaley's book. The "newer evidence" calling this book into question is not even hinted at.

Regardless, the references in this article are poor. One is personal research project (which derides Whaley but does not counter its arguments), another is a Genii Magazine forum discussion (with much derision for Whaley but no facts), and the last has been removed (broken link). The Wikipedia article contains no reference to the Whaley book--a major oversight given three paragraphs are devoted to it.

I would love to believe that the writer of Expert at the Card Table was not, in fact, a serial murderer. Thus this page is particularly frustrating.

Heroinhelperonline (talk) 16:23, 12 July 2012 (UTC)