[Tigers] Wiki or G Robson for Tiger info

[Jay Laifman]

I read his book the first time when I had my Alpine only.  I felt like the
entire time the author was being really snooty and looking down his nose at
the car.  I was left with the feeling that why did he bother to write this
book if he disliked the Alpine so much?  I did later read the Tiger
sections after I got my dad's Tiger.  Those sections were definitely not as
bad.  Not great.  But not bad.

On Mon, Jun 13, 2016 at 10:01 AM, snakebit289 via Tigers <
tigers at autox.team.net> wrote:

> Only my opinion, but folks using wikipedia. org should use it like they
> would Cliff Notes, strictly as a guide to research their references in
> order to get the whole picture on a subject. I write a column, and if the
> only source of information I have at my disposal is wiki, I need to change
> subjects. I've found that the powers that be who manage wiki aren't
> responsive to people questioning individual entries. I wasn't part of the
> team of actual owners and other Tiger historians who contacted wiki on this
> subject, but I was told wiki did not care for criticism from the team.
>
> Likewise, we thought we had an opportunity to question Graham Robson about
> information contained in his book Sunbeam Alpine and Tiger, when he was one
> of two invited Sunbeam celebrities to appear at SUNI VI in Colorado Springs
> in the summer of 2014. I was told that he would have nothing of the sort.
> He basked in his preferred role as bon vivant and master of ceremonies at
> the event, and would not make himself available for any Q and A, private or
> public. I suggest that if people want to quote passages from his book, they
> read as many books related to Tigers as possible, and if basing information
> they post from the Robson book, that they attribute it to him, as they
> would for any information they did not learn firsthand.
>
> Rande Bellman
>
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