Talk:Kevin Gates/Archive 1

His real name
Georga arrests record has his birthname as Kevin Jerome Gilyard, the image is clearly of Gates, just as AllMusic credits him as Kevin Gilyard for his songwriting on his singles/albums. While according to XXL his government name is Marcellus Kevin Gates, however that might have been done in a way to hide his real name, as some street rappers like to do. STATic message me!   20:39, 21 May 2014 (UTC)

Picture
There should be a picture of Kevin Gates.Nkra28 (talk) 16:45, 25 September 2015 (UTC)

Irrelevant Content?
The paragraph about Breadwinner's Association seems randomly placed at the beginning of the article. Also, it reads like an advertisement with no sources. 198.6.33.13 (talk) 23:43, 22 January 2016 (UTC)


 * Agreed. I removed it. Looks like it was added with this edit on November 30. Good catch. Shame on me and the rest of the article watchers for not challenging it. Willondon (talk) 04:42, 24 January 2016 (UTC)

Early Life
This section has many errors and many non sourced information has no mention of his early starts with dead game records, initial mixtape etc information easily found online. Also no mention of his wife as spouse etc. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Oburton212 (talk • contribs) 22:03, 5 February 2016 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 15 February 2016
Spouse: Shadreka (Dreka) Gilyard (since 2015)] Children: Islah Gilyard (daughter) & Khaza Gilyard (son)

Omgsoterilyn (talk) 08:14, 15 February 2016 (UTC) Furthermore, for the protection of minors, we do not normally include the names of children, unless their names are already very well known. - Arjayay (talk) 13:56, 15 February 2016 (UTC)
 * Red information icon with gradient background.svg Not done: as you have not cited reliable sources to back up your request, without which no information should be added to, or changed in, any article.

He has 2 other kids why mention those ones A3HARIBACARDI (talk) 04:10, 19 February 2016 (UTC)

Hi
Hello Alanaleonard (talk) 22:47, 4 May 2016 (UTC)

References for claims are all irrelevant or 404'd
"On August 30, 2015, a video footage was released of Kevin Gates kicking a woman in the chest in Lakeland, Florida, during his performance. The woman filed charges on September 1, 2015.[14][15][16][17][18]"

All the referenced sources are either about him dating his cousin (separate controversial issue) or missing.76.77.184.228 (talk) 07:39, 6 May 2016 (UTC)


 * When I checked the five sources, the first was 404 (I removed it), two were relevant, and two referred to his cousin. It's sourced, but I agree that the whole section should be removed as not important. My two cents. Willondon (talk) 20:56, 6 May 2016 (UTC)

Orphaned references in Kevin Gates
I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of Kevin Gates's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

Reference named "RIAA": From Trey Songz discography:  From Lil' Kim discography:  From Music download:  From Juicy J discography:  From B.o.B discography:  From DJ Khaled:  From Wiz Khalifa discography:  From Sage the Gemini: </li> <li>From List of music recording certifications: </li> <li>From Master P discography: </li> <li>From Plies (rapper): RIAA database search for artist "Plies". Accessed November 20, 2008</li> <li>From August Alsina discography: </li> <li>From Young Money Entertainment: </li> <li>From Jamie Foxx discography: </li> <li>From Migos discography: </li> </ul>

I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT ⚡ 11:13, 12 May 2016 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 17 March 2017
Page protect expired 172.56.28.83 (talk) 12:02, 17 March 2017 (UTC)

He could be released 10th Jan
https://twitter.com/DatPiff/status/945667044518846464 brob (talk) 15:01, 26 December 2017 (UTC)