Talk:Walter E. Williams

message: As the two previous photos of WEW have been recently deleted, could someone please provide a "free" portrait -- perhaps by contacting his office? TIA, Pete Tillman (talk) 21:53, 10 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Photo/portrait request 

message: I know Williams has been influenced by specific Austrians (notably Hayek), but should he be considered a member of the Austrian School per se?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.28.248.41 (talk) 23:28, 21 July 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: He is Hayekean AFAIK, but not sure. Do you know something else? --MeUser42 (talk) 23:45, 22 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Austrian School? 

message: Is it me or is this sentence really awkward?  "Williams was born into a Black family."  Is the point of the sentence to mention that Williams is an African American?  --Xerographica (talk) 03:36, 19 November 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: The sentence would be helpful in describing Steve Martin's charcter Navin in "The Jerk".  In the case of Walter Williams, it is such an obvious point that it is silly to mention it.  I am glad to see someone removed it.Gunbirddriver (talk) 22:14, 20 November 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Awkward? 

message: I ended up collecting numerous facts and sources associated with Walter Williams while locating the citations for a passage removed on Benedict College. This could be of use for editors of this page, so I wanted to make a mention, Refer to my 7/18/20 contribution to the main controversy section of the Benedict college talk page. 
BTW, Google has his autobiography up "Up from the Projects: An Autobiography"   — Preceding unsigned comment added by Roxanne-snowden (talk • contribs) 14:49, 18 July 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Essays 

message: In 2009 I edited this page to say that Walter's cousin is Julius Erving. I did this during class when Walter made a joke about being related to him. Walter loved making jokes. I had the audio recording as a source. Over the years I found a few web pages repeating this claim, but those linked back to the wikipedia page. wikipedia then used those pages as citations for the claim. Currently there is a National Review article making the claim as a source, but this may have been the journalist looking at wikipedia.
Maybe Walter wasn't joking this time, he was quite tall after all. But until there is more evidence, this claim needs to be removed until there is more evidence. Its not mentioned in his autobiography. I feel bad about mis-representing the man's life.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A00:23C6:9980:6901:3D6E:B506:84B9:3387 (talk) 21:10, 3 December 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  I inaccurately edited this page 11 years ago, mistake still here 

message: The New York Times article cited here says Williams died on Tuesday, which was December 1. The Wall Street Journal article cited here says he died on Wednesday, which of course was December 2. Several other sources I have found say either Wednesday or December 2. For example,    . I have seen the date go back in forth in the article a couple of times. Rather than get involved in an edit war, I thought I'd bring it here. Jwolfe (talk) 09:29, 5 December 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Date of Death 

message: When I hover my cursor over the picture of faces in this section it does not always display the right names.  Jokem (talk) 20:40, 5 December 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: That comes from :Template:Imagemap American libertarians, which was created by . I've never worked with imagemaps, so I can't tell, but perhaps there is a mistake in the coding of the template. —DoRD (talk)​ 23:40, 5 December 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Libertarianism in the United States