Talk:Gloria Carter Spann
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Lifted / Plaigiarized edit
Is it just me, or does the Presidency section read like it came from an official biography? The phrasing seems like it came from a larger work somehow. --Wolfram.Tungsten (talk) 02:18, 29 September 2008 (UTC)
How do we make this better? edit
This article is a really terrible one. In light of Patrick Swayze's recent death from pancreatic cancer, I ran across this article under the category of "deaths from pancreatic cancer." I suspect that I'm not the only one who has done this or will do this.
There are a number of minor grammatical errors that can be cleaned up in little time, but it's the content that seems to need the most help. There are suggested rumors about the nature of the relationship between Gloria and her son, which have no place here, unless they're sourced. And even then, I think the presence of that information is of questionable merit. Also, there are pieces of fragmented information that talk about Gloria's religious inspirations from her sister that are written as though the anecdotal information ought to be a witness to others. A religious site would be a better forum for this type of "information."
Finally, it is not necessary, appropriate or helpful to bracket in/hyperlink as many words as possible in a particular article. I've corrected several instances which were ridiculous (why hyperlink "marriage" in an article about one of the Carter siblings?), but in further investigation, I discovered that the problem was perpetual. For example, it is not helpful to hyperlink the word "nocturnal" in the phrase "nocturnal wanderer." If people want to know what "nocturnal" means, they can look it up elsewhere. "Nocturnal" is not a foreign concept. "Nocturnal wanderer," however, should be linked, if there is an article available, because it signifies a condition which is not widely known. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.234.73.42 (talk) 15:46, 15 September 2009 (UTC)