Talk:Still I Rise: A Graphic History of African Americans

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resolved COI issue. I cleaned up article significantly: added references, edited out unsubstantiated claims and/or non-neutral verbiage; expanded on "Criticism" section, adding more opposing critiques; strengthened notability via Notabiility for Creative People: Artemis84 (talk) 23:18, 30 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Subject is notable due to the following two clauses of WP:Notability for creative people:
 * "The person is known for originating a significant new concept, theory or technique." - the book(s) is the first of its genre.
 * "(c) has won significant critical attention" - there is an endorsement of the book from Charles Johnson, a National Book Award winner, as well as several critical statements of the book from reputable publishing companies (Reed Business Group, Inc., Publisher's Weekly, Library Journal)

Paid editing
The article was apparently produced by paid editing from a now -banned editor --see WT:Paid editing. The reviews section needs further attention--comments of even distinguished authors in blogs or blurbs are not reliable sources; the PW and LJ sources must be cited to the exact original article, not to Amazon, Based on Google News Archive, there is sufficient material to do this right.  DGG ( talk ) 16:41, 13 September 2009 (UTC)


 * Paid editing is not against Wikipedia policy (though you and I both might like it to be). There is currently no consensus in the community on it one way or the other. So I have removed the POV/COI paid editing tags. see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:RFC/PAID.

I left the tag, however. Artemis84 (talk) 22:45, 16 January 2010 (UTC)