Talk:Gerald Seymour

@ violation?
At least one sentence (about Munich) is identical to one on the author's home-page as far as i can see.Kdammers (talk) 01:19, 17 February 2008 (UTC)
 * You were right. I have removed the copyvio, and next time you could just do it yourself. --John (talk) 17:57, 11 November 2008 (UTC)

"One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter."
This is a fascinating claim, that I feel needs a reliable source to verify it. I think Seymour certainly uses the phrase somewhere in one of the early books (The Glory Boys?) but I have never seen it claimed that he originated it. Cite please. --John (talk) 17:44, 11 November 2008 (UTC)


 * If you search Google books using the "Advanced Book Search" with a date of publication blank and 1960 (ie before 1961 with the "all the words" box filled with the string (but not in quotes), it will return India Quarterly, by Indian Council of World Affairs, Published by Indian Council of World Affairs [etc.], 1945. p. 122. "The difficulty of defining terrorism has led to the cliche that one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter." Which means that if it was a cliche in 1945 then had already been in use for some time.


 * and a search using 1974 as the last date of publication on the exact phrase returns 7 items, and without quotes shows it was in common use. ] One at the top of that page claims that it originated with "Darrell Trent" ""One man's terrorist," Darrell Trent wrote last year," is another man's freedom fighter." (American Library Association Adult Services Division - 1965) which as the 1945 date shows is not true. --PBS (talk) 18:31, 12 November 2008 (UTC)


 * Nice work, PBS. --John (talk) 06:57, 13 November 2008 (UTC)


 * Google books no longer shows a date of 1945 but 1986 instead, which now makes your sources unreliable. This fascinating claim also appears on the wikiquote terrorism talk page. --Riverstogo (talk) 20:39, 26 December 2014 (UTC)

"Advertisement"??
I disagree that the page, at least as of today, is too much an advertisement.

If this is "an advertisement"... let's have more. Alternatively, I suppose, I could just stop using Wikipedia when I am interested in an author's output.

Tkbwik (talk) 15:37, 6 April 2014 (UTC)

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Copyvio
This article's bibliography appears to be a mixture of close paraphrasing and flat out copying and pasting. One example is templated but the whole thing will need to be rewritten or just removed. --84.64.237.205 (talk) 22:14, 16 June 2020 (UTC)