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Based on the authorship history (36 glowing, unreferenced, glowing additions by Cervantes in Algiers), this fellow has an inventive view of his talent and popularity. Citations please. Save the promotion for the jacket cover. Better yet, delete this amateurish attempt at 15 seconds of fame. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.245.127.72 (talk) 04:16, 22 March 2010 (UTC)
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I tagged this article because significant portions of this article seem to have originated in a publisher's press releases, e.g. "brimming with the kind of ripped-from-the-headlines authenticity" and "Brad Thor. . .will keep readers glued to the pages as he once again takes them across the globe on a heart-pounding chase where the stakes are higher than they have ever been before." This sort of breathy promotional prose is blatantly unencyclopedic. I've not read any of his books so I'm not in a position to edit this article accurately. Someone needs to edit out the heavy hype. 173.49.135.190 (talk) 16:18, 12 April 2010 (UTC)
I've done an overall edit of the article, fixing the many footnoting problems. The footnotes still need work with each one titled.
There was an excess of subheading, so I combined sections into the biography portions.
Elements of this article still are without attribution. I've tagged accordingly.
The piece still suffers from a rather subjective slant and still needs a major overhaul. A RPL search of this author doesn't show him to have much press, notwithstanding the various claims in this Wiki article.
The lead paragraph erroneously inferred that all of his books are number-one NYT bestsellers. A check of the NYT lists shows several on the list but not all. As well, given two have not yet even been published, they could not be number-one sellers.
The JAWA report section likely raises significant Wikipedia issues, but I'll leave that to others to decide whether or not it should continue to be included. I edited to make the language more neutral.
In sum, this piece still needs more work by unbiased editors.173.49.135.190 (talk) 03:35, 18 April 2010 (UTC)
I removed the flag regarding a need for a secondary source on a poll of the "100 Best Killer Thrillers" or words to that effect because there can be no secondary sourcing on a poll. The article states clearly that the reference was based on a vote (or poll), and the poll was apparently conducted by NPR, a credible news source. One might suggest that polls are "created news" and I would agree. Nevertheless, it was not a poll taken on some random web-site of Brad Thor fans or people associated with Brad Thor. It was NPR... a major media organization.
FYI, I am not a Brad Thor fan. I have read ONE BOOK of his, "The Athena Project," which I enjoyed. I tried reading another book of his and didn't like how it started. I gave up on it. Maybe I will return to it some day.
Alex Shrugged (talk) 15:30, 17 January 2020 (UTC)
The claim in the article that Thor shadowed black ops teams is highly dubious. Two sources are cited, but the verification for that claim comes only from Thor himself with no independent substantiation. The essential nature of a covert operation is that they are never disclosed to civilians; therefore, a novelist would never be allowed to "shadow" any operative team -- this is Covert Ops 101 stuff and patently suspect on its face. Simply because the subject of an article claims something does not mean it should be accepted as fact. Thor has also claimed publicly, and incorrectly, for example that Mullah Omar was secretly captured, so he's not a particularly reliable source on intelligence matters. 64.38.197.220 (talk) 03:23, 23 May 2010 (UTC)
Thor makes a number of claims that have no source other than him. Those are claims, not facts. Claims can be included but they should be written as such. If author John Jones claims he was on a secret space mission to Mars, that doesn't make it true because he says it. So instead of saying "John Jones has been on secret missions to Mars" you say "John Jones has said in interviews he has been on secret missions to Mars." To accept a claim as a fact without third party substantiation is biased and violates NPOV. 4.254.221.56 (talk) 23:18, 25 October 2010 (UTC)
Thor shadowed a black-ops team? Right, and Tom Clancy predicted 9/11. This claim should be removed from the page as it is unsubstantiated and unlikely. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.80.28.25 (talk) 15:06, 24 January 2011 (UTC)
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Other images from this same event are up at Wikimedia, and might work better (especially if cropped).--Artaxerxes 17:08, 8 January 2019 (UTC)
I am seeing some really old posts, almost 10 years old, just looks cluttered, anybody familiar with how to add an archive bot?MaximusEditor (talk) 03:08, 30 June 2020 (UTC)