Talk:Nicky Cruz

message: I have quite recently read the swedish edition of The Cross and the Switchblade and according to what I read, Nicky wasn't the president, it was Israel, Nicky was the president's closest man, I cannot remember the correct english term. 130.236.60.32 15:45, 21 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: According to The Cross and the Switchblade, Nicky was the most infamous (having done many famous things), though Nicky wasn't the leader. At one point in the book, he gave his story and then said that he wanted to fight and therefore didn't became the leader. Nicky and Israel became christians at the same time, though Israel later fell back, apparantly he became the leader of the Mau Mau again and then got into jail. Have you read The Cross and the Switchblade (as I have) or something that Nicky has written about it? 212.181.185.33 15:12, 4 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The Cross and the Switchblade film was an adaptation based on the novel.  It is not a documentary.  Some of the details were altered slightly to fit the format (for story-telling, time-constraints, etc.).  In a recent post script added to the book, Wilkerson mentions that one of the characters in the movie (the female heroin addict) was actually a representation of a real-life male.  These types of changes are very common for film adaptations.  The essence of the film is factual, but where details contradict this must be taken into consideration.SolaDeoGloria (talk) 23:01, 28 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Was he really president? 

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thread_title:  WikiProject class rating

message: Nicky Cruz wrote an autobiography that was published, I think, in the late 1960s-early 1970s. It's called "Run, Baby, Run!" and it would be a great source to use in this article. I no longer have my copy or I would work on the article.96.13.237.139 (talk) 01:59, 7 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Autobiography

message: Have any of the claims made by Cruz been verified by a source other than himself as the only citation contained in this text is that of Cruz's own biography?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.202.144.211 (talk) 20:34, 5 April 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I added a "refimprove" template to the article. It needs reliable secondary sources. Without them, a case could easily be made that the subject is not notable and the article could be nominated for deletion. Wikipeterproject (talk) 06:01, 9 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Verifiable? 

message: Most references are still self-published. The article needs secondary references for verification. I have reinstated the template, which had been removed. Wikipeterproject (talk) 12:07, 26 January 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Needs better references

message: Why were the details omitted and replaced by a "Wilkerson attempted again later to convert Cruz, and received the same response"?
I agree that too much detail is superfluous on Wikipedia. But this minimalistic description of their encounter, especially the language of which would be considered improper (the word "convert" is often seen as a derogatory term) by most Christians. Willcmc (talk) 12:34, 13 May 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Details of Wilkerson's and Cruz's encounter edited out?