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Three Birth Dates -- Okay, it is not resolved. However, there should be sources for these dates. -- The 1980 date comes from the book by Marvin Fletcher, but there is no incication where the other dates can be found. I'll look some more.Komowkwa (talk) 12:36, 13 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Vandalism needs correction

I don't know how to do this to make sure the source is documented - Komowkwa (talk) 01:59, 24 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Possible Factual Error

From September to November 1942 and again from July to November 1944, Davis made inspection tours of African-American soldiers stationed in Europe.

The first dates would refer to a period when there were few American Soldiers in the UK (the only Allied holding in Europe), much less African American units. Perhaps these inspections were in the U.S.? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.212.29.89 (talk) 14:13, 25 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move 2 April 2016

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The result of the move request was: Not moved. (non-admin closure) — Music1201 ^talk 23:48, 10 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Benjamin O. Davis Sr. → Benjamin O. Davis, Sr. – Move back to comma version, grammar Nazis have been removing the commas one by one ever since the mass comma deletion effort was thwarted in 2015 Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) (talk) 15:25, 2 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy close per Godwin's law#Corollaries_and_usage – "... once such a comparison is made, the thread is finished and whoever mentioned the Nazis has automatically lost whatever debate was in progress." And per WP:JR and the recent RM discussions that support it. Dicklyon (talk) 16:16, 2 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose per MOS:JR; Consensus has changed on this, following a shift in real-world usage over the last two decades, across all dialects and registers of English. There is no evidence that that current sources overwhelmingly prefer the comma-laden spelling. — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽^ʌⱷ҅_ᴥⱷ^ʌ≼ 23:03, 4 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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I've long been aware of the subject of this article, but only in a somewhat cursory way. When I read the article, to which I'm made a number of minor cleanup changes, I was astounded by the extraordinary and exemplary life he led. The article in addition, is one of the best that I've ever read on Wikipedia. The editor who provided the lion's share of the content, I suspect, is probably long deceased, as he hasn't edited since 2009, but many other editors have taken up his mantle. What I noticed as well, is that the article has been frequently been vandalized, almost exclusively by "hit and run" IP editors. It's been left to more responsible editors, mostly regulars, to clean up their messes, I wonder if it would be possible to exclude such editors from participating in editing this article at all? Activist (talk) 06:59, 24 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Birthdate

Some question about his birthdate 1880? See this book. Lightburst (talk) 15:48, 25 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]