Talk:Lamont Lilly

Contested deletion

This article should not be speedily deleted for lack of asserted importance because this person is an active political organizer of significance --Tarcanes (talk) 21:23, 23 August 2020 (UTC)

Contested deletion

This article should not be speedily deleted for lack of asserted importance because there are credible citations --Tarcanes (talk) 21:40, 23 August 2020 (UTC)

Contested edits

@Tarcanes: I am frankly confused by some of your edits to this article.

• You undid a copy edit of mine with the edit summary "reverting vandalism", in the process removing a wikilink to a location and removing a word from the sentence thus fowling its grammar. This clearly wasn't vandalism, and I'm not a vandal, so not only did this edit not do anything constructive, but you've also essentially made a WP:Personal attack against me.
• You reverted my removal of three publications Lilly has apparently written for "because section in question is cited". Yes, the section is cited, but the citation that follows the claims does not support the assertion that he has written for The Root, Telesur, Black Youth Project. It only supports the assertion that he has contributed to the San Francisco Bay View. If the given citation cannot support information in an article, that information should be removed. Mind you, this whole use of WP:Primary sources to support the assertions that he's contributed to various publications is a classic WP:PROMO tactic and says absolutely nothing about how important or WP:DUE those contributions were. Compare this to the sentence He has written as a guest columnist in The Durham News, The Herald-Sun, and Triangle Tribune. which is supported by a reliable WP:Secondary source.
• You reverted my removal of a sentence that said he was "noted" in the Making All Black Lives Matter with the edit summary "source is verifiable and legitimate despite Indy Beetles subjective disagreement". My problem with this information was not that the source was illegitimate or unverifiable, it was that it was providing no real information about Lilly at all. The author of that book cited an article he wrote as a source and placed it in their bibliography. Essentially, what you're asserting is "This person once wrote something that someone else cited" which is incredibly mundane. Imagine how all biographies would look if we wrote them that way. This looks like an attempt to WP:REFBOMB and it lowers the quality of the article. -Indy beetle (talk) 21:23, 8 September 2020 (UTC)

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