User talk:Wjnoyes

James Craven
Wikipedia does not care who knew who personally; we care what published sources say about a person. Even if those published sources are actually wrong about some or all of his biographical details, we still have to stay with what they say until such time as the corrections can be referenced to other published sources. So if you want to change biographical details about where he was born or when he died, you have to cite published sources for the changed information, not unpublished knowledge gleaned from having known him personally. And you also cannot leave the article sitting in redlinked (i.e. non-existent) categories either — either you find and use categories that exist, or you leave the categories alone until somebody else finds and uses categories that exist.

Since I don't have access to US media coverage of the 1940s and 1950s, I've asked for a sourcing check to see if somebody who does have that access can assist in sorting this out. But we can't say he was born in Canada instead of Pennsylvania, or that he died in the 1970s instead of the 1950s, until we can find published sourcing for those claims. Bearcat (talk) 17:23, 13 October 2017 (UTC)