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philipjcowan
22nd Mar 2010, 03:22 pm
As well as social media, we should invest some time gaining Kudos from Wikipedia. While looking for an email for Tom, I found a reference to him on Wikipedia, which was high on SEO.

And while I was there, I found a few other Tom Turners:

Thomas Turner may refer to:

Thomas Turner (dean) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Turner_(dean)) (1592–1672), Dean of Canterbury
Thomas Turner (President of Corpus) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Turner_(President_of_Corpus)) (1645–1714), English churchman and academic
Thomas Turner (diarist) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Turner_(diarist)) (1729–1793), 18th century English diarist
Thomas Turner (physician) (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Thomas_Turner_(physician)&action=edit&redlink=1) (1773–1865), UK physician and Lunacy Commission (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunacy_Commission)
Thomas G. Turner (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_G._Turner) (1810–1875), Governor of Rhode Island
Thomas J. Turner (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_J._Turner) (1815–1874), U.S. Representative from Illinois
Thomas Turner (Congressman) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Turner_(Congressman)) (1821–1900), U.S. Congressman from 1877-1881 from Kentucky
Thomas Wyatt Turner (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Wyatt_Turner), (1877–1978) civil rights activist and biologist
Thomas Peter Turner (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Peter_Turner) (b. 1928), British researcher
Thomas R. Turner II (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_R._Turner_II), U.S. Army general
Tom Turner (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Turner), English landscape artist and author
Thomas Price Turner (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Price_Turner) (c.1791-1865), Professor of Music at Exeter Cathedral, first cousin of J. M. W. Turner and one of his heirs
Tommy Turner (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Turner), Scottish footballer

philipjcowan
22nd Mar 2010, 03:24 pm
On a semi-related subject, I did a vanity search for myself a few years back and found out that Philip Cowan was a drug dealer in New Zealand who had been murdered and police were hunting his killer. Could be a good start to a postmodernist thriller....

francis
14th Sep 2010, 02:07 am
Surely the question is "do we use wikipedia too much"? It's good for entry-level information, but little else.