Talk:Ed Roberts (activist)
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![]() | A fact from Ed Roberts (activist) appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 5 October 2005. The text of the entry was as follows:
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[edit]Dagnabbit, there should be some kind of automated lock on Wikipedia entries triggered by Google Doodles pointing to them. DsouzaSohan (talk) 05:49, 23 January 2017 (UTC)
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[edit]Today Google is honoring Ed Roberts, so this page will see more traffic. We should improve the article to meet standards. Unfortunately, if someone were to take bold action and simply deleted unsourced information, this article would be a stub, since there is almost no properly cited information on this page. Hopefully with the increased traffic from Google, we can find sources for the many very specific statements about the life of Ed Roberts without the need to remove them. Omniferous (talk) 09:16, 23 January 2017 (UTC)
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Remove the phrase "When California politics again shifted to the right," from the seventh paragraph under "Activism" and replace with "....in 1983, when he returned...." Reason: I, too, am a polio survivor - although not as severely affected as was Mr. Roberts. However, I have never felt or sensed that empathy for people with disability was reserved for one side of the political spectrum. Take politics out of this otherwise poignant and memorable article. Jimosul (talk) 14:18, 23 January 2017 (UTC)
Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. EvergreenFir (talk) 23:06, 23 January 2017 (UTC)
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This link (in the references section at the bottom of the page) is a dead link and should be marked as such: http://atotw.org/edroberts.html Nmiracle (talk) 14:44, 23 January 2017 (UTC)
Partly done: linked to archived version instead EvergreenFir (talk) 23:05, 23 January 2017 (UTC)
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Please change link TRIO program to TRiO Program and link to Wikipedia page TRiO Program Eragonscout (talk) 15:16, 23 January 2017 (UTC)
Already done EvergreenFir (talk) 23:03, 23 January 2017 (UTC)
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131.90.0.236 (talk) 17:00, 23 January 2017 (UTC)
Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format. Pppery 17:44, 23 January 2017 (UTC)
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Please add the following:
PERSONAL LIFE AND TRAVELS (From NY Times Obituary, 3/16/95) Ed traveled to Russia, Australia, Japan and France to raise public awareness on the philosophy of independent living for the disabled. In 1984 he received a MacArthur Foundation grant that he used to pay for his activities.
In a 1991 book "Rescues: The Lives of Heroes," the author, Michael Lesy, said Mr. Roberts was one of nine people who defined heroism. Mr. Lesy wrote, "What a black man like Bob Moses had been in the civil rights movement or a woman like Betty Friedan had been for the feminists, Ed Roberts was for the disabled."
His marriage to Catherine Roberts ended in divorce in 1982. He was survived by a son, Lee, of Redding, Calif.; his mother, Zona, of Berkeley, and two brothers, Mark, of Eugene, Ore., and Ron, of Hawaii. 72.192.212.52 (talk) 17:28, 23 January 2017 (UTC)
Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. EvergreenFir (talk) 23:03, 23 January 2017 (UTC)
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