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I cannot believe that a serious encyclopedia would contain a sentence quoting a "paranormal investigator" and his opinion on Lincoln's reported premonitions. That part should be deleted. 2601:41:200:5260:31D8:A73D:E952:3430 (talk) 01:09, 22 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Or perhaps we should add the opinions of astrologers and phrenologists as well. 2601:41:200:5260:31D8:A73D:E952:3430 (talk) 01:12, 22 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

sounds like it should only be mentioned in passing NotQualified (talk) 14:23, 20 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Oh yes, let's under any and all circumstances dump all over any possibility of the paranormal really existing, let's do, it's an absolute must. Jersey Jan (talk) 17:22, 10 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

As a matter of fact, yes. EEng 17:37, 10 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I don't think the article says what you think it says.

The paranormal investigator the article references is Joe Nickell, who is a skeptic. He investigates the paranormal, but only to perform what he always believes is a debunking. The article states that Nickell "wrote that dreams of assassination would not be unexpected, considering the Baltimore Plot and an additional assassination attempt in which a hole was shot through Lincoln's hat." In other words, because Lincoln received assassination threats (Nickell mentions only one, but there were many) and had survived one attempt, it is only logical that the possibility of assassination would be on his mind, and this in turn would lead to dreams of assassination. Ergo, the dream was not a true premonition. I myself, who am intensely interested in and open minded regarding the paranormal, also take this view. Jersey Jan (talk) 12:58, 13 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Licoln might be well said the most important prson in history. Bro StaRs (talk) 00:25, 4 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The following post was made to my personal talk page by an ip about a possible edit to this page about Lamon's account of Lincoln's premoninition dream. I'm too busy to do anything or make a detailed reply now but I'm copying the post here in case it's of interest to someone else for a more immediate reply. Libertybison (talk) 08:42, 29 May 2025 (UTC) :[reply]

Good job on correcting the Clara Harris photo. I was curious if you could be able to remove or expand on this other lore of the assassination. The Lincoln Assassination article has a section “Lincoln's premonitions” which mentions the often repeated claim of Lincoln’s dream of a “president killed by an assassin”. However, as the Lamon article itself says on the section “Lamon as Lincoln's biographer”, historians Don E. Fehrenbacher and Virginia Fehrenbacher have cited internal inconsistencies and external evidence regarding Lamon's account that lead them to question its veracity. 78.150.15.34 (talk) 21:40, 26 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

MOS:JOBTITLE states Offices, titles, and positions such as president, king, emperor, grand duke, (etc.) … are capitalized only in the following cases: "When a title is used to refer to a specific person as a substitute for their name during their time in office, e.g., the King, not the king (referring to Charles III); the President, not the president (referring to Trump).” “President” in this instance is a substitute for the name "Lincoln" so the sentence as follows is not in error:

Had it been, Booth would have been the only plotter with a plausible chance of gaining access to the President, or at least to gain entry to the box without being searched for weapons first.

- Shearonink (talk) 02:05, 8 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I suggest saying simply "access to Lincoln", thus killing both the JOBTITLE and WP:ELEVAR birds with one stone. EEng 11:43, 8 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I agree with EEng. MOS:JOBTITLE is a confusing guideline. Much easier to reword and avoid it altogether. Sundayclose (talk) 14:11, 8 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Oh yeah hella confusing... Done. - Shearonink (talk) 14:57, 8 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]