Talk:Corey Clark

message: Okay, I've gone through the article to clean it up a bit, and added lots of material from sources I've come across in my research.  Among my edits:
*I added two sections to the article, one on his Early life and career, and a Trivia section.  Though they're almost at opposite ends of the article, both are mainly derived from the same source.
*I've provided sources for his legal troubles, passages for which had been tagged for some time in both the Idol section and the Legal Troubles section.  The arrest for which he was disqualified from the show, for example, was the Smoking Gun, which was listed in External Links.  I moved that to the passage in question, and put another SG page as a link to a different passage.
*I noticed that some links were given as both sources in the References section, and in the External Links section, and removed the latter as redundant.
*I wrote descriptions of the sources in their tags more in keeping with proper endnote writing.
*I removed two links entirely from the article: This one, because the information therein bears no relevance whatsoever to the article, and this one because the information that was once on it that was pertinent to the article is no longer there.
*Detailed reaction from an Idol producers to the Primetime Live story, and a rebuttal from Clark to those statements.
*I came across a source that actually supports the assertion by Clark that his entourage was present during the food fight, which was not in the article back when that detail was in it.  I re-inserted that point, and that source.
*I added much information on the details of the arrest that led to his disqualification from Idol (it was not obstruction of justice), including Clark's account of the matter with the contract and the attorneys.  The source for that account from him makes it explicitly clear that contrary to what the article had previously said,  he did make the allegation of the affair with Abdul to producers at the time.  He did not make that revelation until two years later. Nightscream 08:24, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: More material and sources added

message: Third person wording refers to when a writer is relating what someone else says in the form of a paraphrase.  When one says, for example, "President Lincoln said he wanted to pass this law...", they are speaking in third person.  First-person wording, on the other hand, is when the writer and the person speaking are one and the same, and would read as follows: "I wish to pass this law."  The passage "Clark felt" or "Clark knew" is not a first person passage, nor is it a "direct quote".  A direct quote, as I've informed you numerous times, is when you repeat the person's statement word for word, and with proper quotation marks.  "Clark knew" is not a "direct quote copied and pasted word for word from Clarks book", unless you're asserting that Clark has a tendency to speak of himself in the third person. Nightscream 23:41, 21 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: This was brought to WP:AN/I, and I had a few minutes, so I'm offering an opinion. In reviewing this section(the previous one has such awful formatting, random caps and lack of signatures as to be practically worthless), it is clear that Liaishard doesn't understand the difference between first and third person writing and a direct quotation and a paraphrase. Further, the text she herself provides as a direct quote shows that yes, these were the author's feelings, not his specific trained knowledge. As such 'feels' or 'felt' instead of 'knows' or 'knew' is appropriate for the article. ThuranX 05:26, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: First-Person wording and Third-Person wording

message: Geniac, you placed citation request tags on two passages, but those two passages are already sourced.  The source for the "conflict of interest" passage is placed at the end of that paragraph (Note #11), and is this page at mtv.com.  The source for the quote about him being defamed is same source, and is placed at the end of the sentence that immediately follows that quote (Note #20), which ends with "...in order to ruin his career." I changed the former passage to "Clark and his fellow contestants' position was that having the producers select an attorney for them was a conflict of interest..."  I think it sounds neutral enough, and doesn't use the word "felt", which Liaishard objected to. Nightscream 18:19, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for finding a wording that avoids "felt" and "knew". --Geniac 18:21, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: No prob.  But what happened to the article's accompanying photograph?  Why was it removed? Nightscream 18:26, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: It's still there , but it's not displaying. Maybe there was another copy uploaded with an underscore in the filename, which had been deleted, but this one has a space in the filename... I'm guessing wildly here; I don't know enough about that to have an answer. Try asking at Wikipedia:Village pump (technical). --Geniac 19:41, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Two passages sourced

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