Talk:1968 Olympics Black Power salute

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[edit] Date of Occurrence

Many sites incorrectly cite the date of occurrence as October 17th 1968. The date of occurrence is October 16, 1968. This can be verified through this short biography [1]. Also, if one does a search through Google newspaper archives you will see that many news papers reported that the event happened on Wednesday night. Wednesday night was October 16th in 1968. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.163.231.144 (talk) 22:00, 18 October 2007 (UTC)


[edit] Boycott

Removed:

The boycott had been the idea of Harry Edwards who set up the OPHR, which appealed to all Black American athletes to boycott the games to demonstrate that the Civil Rights Movement had not gone far enough.

Because there's no discussion of any boycott earlier in the article, and they clearly didn't boycott the Olympic Games. --Aioth 09:19, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Article name

shouldn't it be "salute" rather than "Salute" per WP:MOS? --Madchester 21:40, 17 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Copyright issues

Parts of this article seem largely lifted from the timesonline.co.uk article on the event, rather than being an original summary of events. This has led to some POV statements. I'm going to attempt a rewrite.Stile4aly 18:24, 26 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] NCERT's inclusion of this incident has no secondary sources.

Including discussion of NCERT's coverage of this incident is unwarranted. There must be hundreds of books and other publications that mention this. As the event wasn't in the U.S., any publication in the world save Mexico shares the distinction of being from a country other than where this occurred.

In order to show NCERT's coverage of this is relevant, you need to find reliable secondary sources that say as much; until then, it should stay out of the article. JDoorjam JDiscourse 05:38, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

I dont understand your problem with this. The coverage by NCERT points out the notability of this incident. I also dont understand your insistence on secondary sources. An online textbook is a pretty reliable source to say that something is in that textbook. I am invariant under co-ordinate transformations (talk) 21:26, 13 April 2008 (UTC)
Wikipedia requires secondary sources in order to prove both the reliability and the notability of information. The textbook itself is not a reliable secondary source, it's evidence. That makes it original research. That the event is notable is beyond question, but it is not clear why NCERT's inclusion of the incident is relevant enough to warrant mentioning here. Surely you wouldn't suggest mentioning NCERT in the articles corresponding to every topic NCERT covers? Unless you have outside sources explaining why NCERT's discussion of this topic is particularly and especially important, it appears not to be critical to the topic. JDoorjam JDiscourse 20:30, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
If you recall, the NCERT mention was in a section titled Literary and Textual references. The idea was to have a section dealing with how this incident is represented in literature. So, NCERT was just a start. I agree that NCERT mentioning this by itself is not notable, but a section containing references to this incident literature would illustrate its importance beyond just a protest for equal civil rights. I am invariant under co-ordinate transformations (talk) 20:03, 15 April 2008 (UTC)