This article must adhere to the biographies of living persons (BLP) policy, even if it is not a biography, because it contains material about living persons. Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourcedmust be removed immediately from the article and its talk page, especially if potentially libellous. If such material is repeatedly inserted, or if you have other concerns, please report the issue to this noticeboard.If you are a subject of this article, or acting on behalf of one, and you need help, please see this help page.
This article is rated Start-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale. It is of interest to the following WikiProjects:
This article is within the scope of WikiProject Biography, a collaborative effort to create, develop and organize Wikipedia's articles about people. All interested editors are invited to join the project and contribute to the discussion. For instructions on how to use this banner, please refer to the documentation.BiographyWikipedia:WikiProject BiographyTemplate:WikiProject Biographybiography articles
This article is within the scope of WikiProject R&B and Soul Music, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of R&B and Soul Music articles on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.R&B and Soul MusicWikipedia:WikiProject R&B and Soul MusicTemplate:WikiProject R&B and Soul MusicR&B and Soul Music articles
This article is within the scope of WikiProject Women, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of women on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.WomenWikipedia:WikiProject WomenTemplate:WikiProject WomenWikiProject Women articles
This article is within the scope of WikiProject African diaspora, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of African diaspora on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.African diasporaWikipedia:WikiProject African diasporaTemplate:WikiProject African diasporaAfrican diaspora articles
This article is within the scope of WikiProject Women in Music, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Women in music on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.Women in MusicWikipedia:WikiProject Women in MusicTemplate:WikiProject Women in MusicWomen in music articles
The following Wikipedia contributor has declared a personal or professional connection to the subject of this article. Relevant policies and guidelines may include conflict of interest, autobiography, and neutral point of view.
Many reliable published offline and online sources such as this, this, this, this, this, etc., give her birth year as 1947. Her first hit single was in 1967. It seems, on the face of it, unlikely that she was born in 1956. However, I've removed the birth date details per WP:BLP until this is resolved. Ghmyrtle (talk) 16:19, 27 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Only partially, as the 1947 date was still in the infobox - the edit which you linked was from 2014. More pertinently, you removed her birth name as "unverifiable", despite it being specifically cited in what is generally regarded as a reliable source (Whitburn), and not questioned by the article subject. Ghmyrtle (talk) 22:31, 23 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
I was clearly not defending her - I was pointing out that you had been in error in giving her a 'final warning' when (apart from editing her own bio, albeit neutrally) she has done nothing wrong here for over three years, a fact which you seemed to have missed. Her only recent edit here removed duplicate information - it did not "insert.. phony info". Ghmyrtle (talk) 13:28, 25 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
