Talk:Patrick H. Reason

Unreliable sources
Notice: there are numerous factual errors in other online and print biographies of Patrick Reason. Dorothy Porter's bio of Reason, cited in the entry, is the most accurate, as far as I can determine from research I am currently doing. The best of the others are cribbed, often verbatim, from Porter's. And there are numerous others that are untrustworthy. At some point, I may be removing material from other bios unless confirmed in Porter's. For example, his sponsorship by the AASS is not verifiable, though they did commission works from him. Please discuss issues here if need be. Thanks Troutfang (talk) 04:39, 12 December 2011 (UTC)

Okay, I went ahead and deleted untrustworthy information & the corresponding citations. Until we have a more extensive biography of Reason, I think we have to rely on Porter, as she was the only person to have done any original, published research on him that I can find. She and her husband, James Porter, were Reason's chief collectors and biographers, and her encyclo entry is pretty much the only published information we have that is reliable (although she did not cite all her sources there). In my own research, I have found serious factual errors in almost all other bio entries or other discussions of Reason (mainly in art/exhbition books), but I have not yet found a serious one in Porter's bio.

If you would like to discuss these issues, I hope you will please post them here before adding material not confirmed in Porter.Troutfang (talk) 05:32, 12 December 2011 (UTC)

I just deleted references from Sharon Patton's book, which I have found to have several factual errors in its account of Reason. It states, for example, that he studied in England, which is not corroborated by any reliable source (he did apprentice with an English engraver, but in NYC). I have found other factual errors in that book's account of the early period, so use with some caution.Troutfang (talk) 00:33, 9 April 2015 (UTC)