Talk:Ben Carson

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    come on people, no reason we can't make this a better article.

    1. Birth - Where was he born
    2. Marriage and Family: What's his spouse's name
    3. Education - Where did he go to school? (wasn't it yale?)
    4. Sources - We need sources
    5. Early Life
    6. Medical Contributions
    7. Expand Aricle

    #Add Picture/Photo

    1. Expand the Intro per WP:LEAD (one or two paragraphs summarizing article)
    2. Give it a good read through
    3. copyedit
    4. Peer Review request to Biography workgroup
    5. Review WP:WIAGA
    6. After todo completion, submit for GA

    This man is amazing and deserves feature article status WP:FA. Let's do what we can to improve this. --Maniwar (talk) 16:35, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

    This article was listed on Wikipedia:Votes for deletion and the consensus was keep: see Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Ben Carson


    I removed the drbencarson.com link since it is no longer upVickfan This link is now working (checked 7/17/2007) Teamember 02:48, 18 July 2007 (UTC)

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    [edit] Removal of the word 'evangelical'

    I'm copying this here from my talk page:

     I kind of disagree with your edit summary  
 here. Would  
 you care to expound on why you think he is not actually an evangelical? Possible at [[Talk:Ben 
 Carson]]. Cheers, Ansell 07:13, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

    I simply removed the word "evangelical" that said Ben Carson was an evangelical Christian. For years the evangelical movement labeled Seventh-day Adventists (SDA's) as a cult and wanted nothing to do with them. SDA's, although they believe in evangelism, they do not consider themselves evangelicals and neither does anyone else; Just like Baptist's don't consider themselves to be evangelicals. Ben Carson considers himself a devout Christian and an Adventist, but to throw the word evangelical really is an assumption and is POV. If you can show me otherwise, I truly stand and differenciate evangelicals and SDA's. --Maniwar (talk) 12:11, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

    [edit] Quotes

    I went ahead and removed the quotes section of the article. None of the quotes seemed too terribly important to the article, and no citations were provided for any of them. —Mears man 00:50, 29 September 2007 (UTC)

    [edit] Questions about Ben Carson

    Do you know who influenced Ben Carson to be so successful ? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.105.208.31 (talk) 23:52, 30 January 2008 (UTC)

    [edit] everything here

    is sourced from publications by the author. I intend to remove anything that cannot be sourced from third party sources. DGG (talk) 05:45, 31 January 2008 (UTC) someone seems to have done it a little too enthusiastically. I have removed the most irrelevant part. I ask again for sources on the rest, reminding everyone of WP:BLP and WP:V. DGG (talk) 07:02, 10 February 2008 (UTC)