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Meelar (talk) 21:41, Jun 15, 2005 (UTC)

Harold Battiste
We don't report that someone has died until we see a reliable published source confirming it - there have been plenty of death hoaxes in the past. Sad news if true though. Ghmyrtle (talk) 15:31, 19 June 2015 (UTC) PS: Now updated on the basis of this source. Thanks for alerting us. Ghmyrtle (talk) 16:18, 19 June 2015 (UTC)

Reference errors on 15 July
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Fixed, thanks! Matuko 02:51, 17 July 2016 (UTC)

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Thanks! Fixed! Matuko 02:40, 17 September 2016 (UTC)

Sheela Murthy maintenance templates
Please see my comments in the the Talk:Sheela Murthy page. Joel Why? (talk) 15:29, 24 April 2017 (UTC)

Offing
Just for future reference, "soft redirects" to Wiktionary are not actually speediable as "dictionary definitions". Please see WP:SOFTSISP for more information about why we do, and keep, pages like what offing looked like when you tried to speedy it — the TLDR on it is "so that people don't try to post new articles that are speediable as dictionary definitions". Thanks. Bearcat (talk) 15:01, 24 January 2018 (UTC)

Coretta Scott King article
Please go to Cleanup where you recently reported the Coretta Scott King article for cleanup, and see the subsequent comments. Also see the Coretta Scott King article itself for community fixes since you added the edit tags. Thanks. ---  DOOMSDAYER 520 (Talk&#124;Contribs) 20:07, 17 April 2018 (UTC)

Thanks for your politeness in expressing disagreement with my adding CSK to the cleanup project. Here are just a few examples of that read like a high school essay in the Coretta Scott King article:

"King became friends with many politicians before and after Martin Luther King's death, most notably John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, and Robert F. Kennedy. Her telephone conversation with John F. Kennedy during the 1960 presidential election has been credited by historians for mobilizing African-American voters." (No citations.. and "friends"?)

"Coretta's maternal grandfather, Martin, was born to a slave of Black Native American ancestry, and her white master who never acknowledged Martin as his son. He eventually owned a 280-acre farm. Because of his diverse origins, Martin appeared to be White. However, he displayed contempt for the notion of passing." (No citations for any of this. "Diverse origins"? These stories are anecdotal, even if the King family repeats them — oral history is not always factual.)

"King's parents visited him in the fall and had suspicions about Coretta Scott after seeing how clean his apartment was. While the Kings had tea and meals with their son and Scott, Martin, Sr. turned his attention to her and insinuated that her plans of a career in music were not fitting for a Baptist minister's wife." (Is this information and the way it's written encyclopedic in nature??)

I could go on, but if no one sees the problems in this article but me, I am totally fine with that. I still feel it has too much anecdotal detail, too many subjective statements concerning relationships, and is altogether too "casual" for a public figure of Mrs. King's stature. Matuko 04:34, 19 April 2018 (UTC) Matuko 04:34, 19 April 2018 (UTC)


 * In your three examples I must point out that the first is in the lead (introductory) paragraph and per WP style citations are not always necessary. MOS:CITELEAD. Relationships with politicians are described and cited in the rest of the article. You have a good point in the second example, but that can be rectified with a basic statement on the reliability of oral history. For your third example, you are incorrect that there is no citation. A footnote for a book entry is used for multiple sentences in that area. If you think there are many other examples, I concede that you have valid points about cheesy language like "became friends with." But what's stopping you from tightening up the prose? ---  DOOMSDAYER 520 (Talk&#124;Contribs) 14:40, 19 April 2018 (UTC)

Erhard Maertens
Hi Matuko, What was wrong with this article that it needed an new copyedit, tone tag?  scope_creep Talk  07:12, 25 June 2020 (UTC)


 * Thanks for reminding me to add a discussion about it on the Erhard Maertens talk page, which I have done!

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