Talk:Billy Blanks

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[edit] Not in the style of an encyclopedia article

This article reads like a press release for Billy Blanks and Tae Bo.

Bridgetown 17:16, 23 December 2006

[edit] Dispute Discussion December 2005

I'm not qualified to speak to Mr. Blanks' personal history, but Karate was not an Olympic sport and so there could be no U. S. Olympic Karate Team. The closest I am aware of their being an Olympic karate team would have been with the debut of Tae Kwon Do in the 2000 Sydney summer games. Rorybowman 08:18, 31 December 2005 (UTC)

Removed own DISPUTE tag. Blanks was a member of the AAU karate team,[1] so I have modified the main article to clarify this. Rorybowman 01:06, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Verbatim copying of text (plagiarism?)

Much of this article's text appears to have been copied verbatim from the biography page on Billy Blanks' own site (http://www.billyblanks.com/about_meetbilly.asp?section=about). —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 64.169.12.26 (talk • contribs) 01:00, 8 November 2006.

I removed it. This was particularly egregious because whoever put it there made some effort to change a few words in most sentences to make it harder to detect by Googling. cab 00:33, 9 February 2007 (UTC)