Talk:Riley L. Pitts

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Contents 1 Reorganized sections 2 External Links 3 Link for Presidential Speech 4 Biography

[edit] Reorganized sections

I have reorganized the sections according to Wikipedia:Guide to layout ... I'll leave it to you to replace all the bolded Captain Pitts mentions with just his unbolded last name per Wikipedia:Manual of Style (biographies) ... please see some of the other articles linked to List of African American Medal of Honor recipients for examples of how this article should look. —72.75.126.37 (talk · contribs) 17:52, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] External Links

When I went to add {{cite web}} tags, I found that one of the URLs had evaporated, so I deleted it ... in each case I used the <title> tag on the web page to fill in the title= fields, and the name of the website for the publisher= field, so blame them if a citation looks ugly. --72.75.126.37 07:52, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Link for Presidential Speech

http://www.aavw.org/served/cmoh_pitts_abstract07.html - There you seem to know how to "properly" do this. TurboManiacal 13:38, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

And you can learn to do it, too ... remember, there was a time when I knew less about Wikipedia than you do at this very moment ... see Wikipedia:Citing sources for the basics (especially WP:CITE#When you quote someone), and Wikipedia:Citation templates for specific templates to use when citing a book, newspaper, journal, or website ... several different ones are used in the article for MOH recipient John R. Fox, so that might be a good example for you (even though it needs some restructuring and more sections as per WP:LAYOUT).

Unfortunately, African-American Involvement in the Vietnam War is not a Reliable Source because it is a personal website, and not Verifiable, which is why I made the reference in this article a {{cite news}} for the New York Times, not a {{cite web}} for the page at AAVW.org which provided a citation for the NYT article (date, page, etc.) ... the URL you've just provided does not cite a source, and cannot be used by itself for the reasons I just stated.

The LBJ quote may in fact come from the same NYT article, but as stated in WP:VERIFY, it is the contributor's responsibility to find sources, not mine as a WikiGnome ... "I'm here to repair it, not to defend it." ... I have also removed the bold text from sections that I edited, but the rest are up to you now. --72.75.126.37 18:22, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

God you're retarded. The citation for being the first Black American MOH winner was enough but the citation for Johsnon's speech wasn't WTF is wrong with you? —Preceding unsigned comment added by TurboManiacal (talk • contribs) 22:04, 14 January 2007

WP:No personal attacks is an Official Policy here ... I've tried to help you, because without a citation, anyone can remove that quote as violating WP:No original research ... so, you're on your own now. --72.75.126.37 23:55, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Biography

The biography section needs to be reworked or partially gutted. A good portion of it is just a slightly reworded excerpt from the MoH citation below it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Kevin W. (talk • contribs) 18:41, 7 September 2007

Thank you for your suggestion regarding Riley L. Pitts! When you feel an article needs improvement, please feel free to make those changes. Wikipedia is a wiki, so anyone can edit almost any article by simply following the Edit this page link at the top. You don't even need to log in (although there are many reasons why you might want to). The Wikipedia community encourages you to be bold in updating pages. Don't worry too much about making honest mistakes — they're likely to be found and corrected quickly. If you're not sure how editing works, check out how to edit a page, or use the sandbox to try out your editing skills. New contributors are always welcome. —72.75.74.236 (talk · contribs) 22:16, 7 September 2007 (UTC)

I know how to edit. I've been a Wikier for a long time. However, I'd like some suggestions as to how to change the page instead of just doing it myself. --Kevin W. 22:36, 7 September 2007 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Kevin W. (talk • contribs)