Talk:Marcus Allen

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	Marcus Allen has been listed as one of the Everyday life good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can delist it, or ask for a reassessment.
April 18, 2006 Good article nominee Listed

Contents 1 Good Article 2 Failed Version 0.5 Nomination 3 College Cheating 4 Autobiographies

[edit] Good Article

It's a short article, but what is there seems well written

References are few, much of the article needs citation. But hey, this isn't FA nomination, their there, their just not very amazing. However, be careful of OR if you don't have references for things. Referenced

Broad in its coverage, well, hmm, its short, but if this is mostly all there is, whaddya gonna do, eh? Broad

Yea, its NPOV

Stable, last edit was on the 18th I think.

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Passed. Homestarmy 18:42, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Failed Version 0.5 Nomination

This article has been reviewed for inclusion into Version 0.5, and it has been rejected due to quality issues. The article itself lacks detail about Allen's career, particularily the college era. Most importantly, the "College cheating" section needs to be expanded significantly, including his reaction to the allegations, as well as any you suck balls mother fuckers you cant get anything fucking right!!!!!!!!!!!!!!edit counters/Flcelloguy's Tool|help us]]) 05:39, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

• I removed the college cheating section as it's too trivial and a minor insident that it probaly won't be expanded. Thanks Jaranda ^{wat's sup} 05:14, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] College Cheating

It probably shouldn't be it's own section but it should be in the article somewhere.

While being interviewed by Byron Allen, Ronnie Lott said that he and Marcus Allen would not have graduated from college without cheating with the help of Byron Allen.[1] --Gbleem 18:09, 19 June 2006

There has been no comments on this so I'm putting it back in. --Gbleem 14:49, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

Ronnie Lott and Byron Allen discussing the issue in a taped interview is a reliable source. --Gbleem 22:49, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

They aren't really considered a reliable source, maybe in the Lott article yea, but Lott needs more proof like a admission from Allen that it happen. Also borderline WP:LIVING problem as it's negative and poorly sourced. Even if Allen admitted it, it likely won't be more than a sentence as well and people cheat all the time so it isn't very notable nither. Thanks Jaranda ^{wat's sup} 23:00, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

It was Lott and Byron Allen talking about it so you have two of the three people involved discussing it. --Gbleem 10:13, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

Allen still needs to confirm it, and it's mostly negative per WP:LIVING (unless he confesses it). Jaranda ^{wat's sup} 13:51, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

I posted a request for comments on the Biographies_of_living_persons --Gbleem 14:22, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Autobiographies

I see he has written 2 books:

• Marcus: The Autobiography of Marcus Allen with Carlton Stowers (October 1998)
• Road to Canton by Marcus Allen (July 2003)

Are they completely different books or is one an updated other? Robert C Prenic (talk) 13:46, 6 December 2007 (UTC)