Talk:Donald Young (choir director)

JamesKnight7 (talk) 23:48, 6 September 2023 (UTC)

Changes to article
Greetings:

The accompanying page had several editing issues which I have repaired today.

(1) “which Barack Obama attended for twenty years before the Barack Obama 2008 presidential campaign and …”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_life_and_career_of_Barack_Obama

Barack Obama moved to Chicago in 1991-1992 when he married Michelle. He was at most a 16 year resident of Chicago, and could not have attended any Chicago Church for 20 years prior to his 2008 campaign.

If the 20 years were true, he would have had to have moved to Chicago in 1988 when he was actually in Harvard in 1990 at school and the editor-in-chief of the Harvard Law Review. This simply does not add up and is not supported by any citation I can find.

Also, Barack Obama is not relevant to this page any more than any other person who attended or attends service or services there. Therefore I have omitted it.

(2) Citations repaired

(a) ref name “ABC” was same as ref name “Gospel” - combined into single reference. Citing an archive doesn't make a second article.

(b) one reference not found, page 404, removed

(3) One paragraph was removed since its citations are not sufficient for Wikipedia. One citation referenced filing documents in a court case (unsettled) and the other a bizarre interview with an alleged political candidate. Neither one fits the definition of a reliable source and so the entire speculative paragraph has been removed for lack of citation, lack of relationship to this article, and this not being the sort of information that has any bearing on this choir director’s life or legacy as he was already dead when it happened or not. The "citations" were contradictory.

(4) One Master’s Degree according to House Resolution from Illinois House of Representatives. The other was credited to a “family spokesperson” which is not as reliable.

I see several items in the history of this article which are concerning.

If you wish to have a discussion on any of the foregoing, please leave the discussion on my Wikimedia Commons talk page as it has notifications directly to me and the Wikipedia one only sometimes does. Thank you! Ellin Beltz (talk) 04:57, 8 May 2024 (UTC)
 * User:Ellin Beltz NY Times says he attended the church for nearly 20 years. All the best: Rich Farmbrough 21:29, 14 May 2024 (UTC).