Talk:Soulan Pownceby

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This is my first wiki article - so please excuse any mistakes. All of the information has citations and I have presented the major subsections in chronological order.

I have updated the article with information about the name suppression controversy. I believe that my edit has been properly cited, and complies with the wiki BLP policy.Bayardo San Roman (talk) 15:55, 29 December 2009 (UTC)

Cleanup
This article needs cleanup with respect to basic spelling, WP:NPOV; WP:weasel and WP:dated. DerbyCountyinNZ (Talk Contribs) 10:11, 26 July 2010 (UTC)

This article reflects Soulan's apparent tendency and struggle with violence and shows his academic struggle to overcome perceptions and social expectations leading from latent racism and perceptions "as a black boxer" towards one of the few African-American-Maori minority in New Zealand and in the world. The article mentions that his US Navy Serviceman father has not recognized him but fails to mention that an "anonymous person" paid for Soulan to attend St Bede's Catholic college in Christchurch shortly after his sister was murdered by her drug dealing partner. At school Soulan was not violent, he was however dangerously strong and did not know the bounds of when to stop nor did he know his own strength. He excelled at sports. The manslaughter reference fails to mention that Soulan used to flip his daughter like a rugby ball and it was during such actions that he cracked the baby's ribs and hit the child's head on the arm of the couch that led to the child's death. These acts were likely out of ignorance as New Zealand schools do not teach parenting (e.g. some US schools have students look after an egg to teach childcare principles). — Preceding unsigned comment added by 119.12.78.49 (talk) 04:32, 6 November 2011 (UTC)


 * Recent changes to this article have removed much notable and verified material relating to multiple convictions (manslaughter, assault) and associated visa issues with travel to the 2004 Olympics and 2006 Commonwealth Games. See history.  Removal of that material means the article is not balanced or neutral.  --Pakaraki (talk) 19:11, 26 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Thank you for your suggestion. When you believe an article needs improvement, please feel free to make those changes. Wikipedia is a wiki, so anyone can edit almost any article by simply following the  link at the top. The Wikipedia community encourages you to be bold in updating pages. Don't worry too much about making honest mistakes—they're likely to be found and corrected quickly. If you're not sure how editing works, check out how to edit a page, or use the sandbox to try out your editing skills.  New contributors are always welcome. You don't even need to log in (although there are many reasons why you might want to).; I couldn't think of a way to present it neutrally at the time, and much of the page came off as peacock. --Andrensath (talk &#124; contribs) 20:04, 26 July 2010 (UTC)