Talk:Otis Clark

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"A memorial service will be held on a yet to be confirmed date." is obituary dialogue and not permissible by Wikipedia guidelines and an "obituary" tag will be added until it is removed.Paradise coyote (talk) 15:47, 23 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Why not just remove the statement instead? Lugnuts (talk) 17:21, 23 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

So that the inexperienced people working/creating (many of them here just because they knew him or belong to his church) the article - which I Wikified a lot already, can get a sense of what is and isn't acceptable - speaking of which, why would a Wikipedian of your experience remove the stub-class tag?Paradise coyote (talk) 18:17, 23 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Because it's not a stub. Lugnuts (talk) 18:24, 23 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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date of death[edit]

This article follows http://www.voicesofoklahoma.com/interview/clark-otis/ which states that that he died May 21. However, according to both https://www.newson6.com/story/18582965/oldest-known-tulsa-race-riot-survivor-dies and http://www.federalwaymirror.com/news/otis-clark-worlds-oldest-traveling-preacher-dies-at-109/ he died Sunday, May 20. -- -- -- 21:07, 3 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

According to this site "CLARK, OTIS G. was born 13 February 1903, received Social Security number 560-24-8576 (indicating California) and, Death Master File says, died 21 May 2012 Source: Death Master File (public domain)" Lemunz (talk) 22:03, 3 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]