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Passed away?

Strongest confirmation I've seen of this right now is a tweet from a local journalist who interviewed him last week [1]. Anyone got anything more in conformance with WP:RS? Thanks, quant18 (talk) 14:23, 25 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Just be patient mate. It'll come --Jkaharper (talk) 14:24, 25 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

It has been resolved. Thank your for confirming, Quant18. Hulten (talk) 08:26, 26 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

See Borderless World, a Huffpost Live video on his life and recent passing. http://live.huffingtonpost.com/r/segment/one-world-movement-garry-davis-dead/51f66f8902a7607c560008c5 I Met him several years ago. He was creative and courageous.--Lbeaumont (talk) 09:50, 31 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Did he re-acquire US citizenship?

He relinquished his US citizenship in 1948, but then he lived and worked in the USA for decades? Was he a stateless person in the USA or he re-acquired the US citizenship at one point? How could he consider running for government posts if he was stateless? The article needs to do a better job addressing these inconsistencies. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 198.182.56.5 (talk) 20:35, 16 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

^^ Yeah. What he said. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.5.184.213 (talk) 23:20, 11 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Some questionable claims

I am having great difficulty coming up with reliable sources for a lot of the text that appears in this article, and have drawn something of a blank. The majority of claims appear in only one group of sources — those that are directly written by Davis himself, or published by his personal organisations. Some are not supported "out of universe" with respect to Davis' movement by any external sources. For example:

Davis is claimed to have been a "Broadway actor" at some point in his early history. The only sources that say that he was a Broadway actor are published by the World Government of World Citizens and its various divisions. None of these ever list any roles that he played, any productions that he was in, any directors he worked under, or give any indication of the timeframe in which he was a Broadway actor. No press reviews of Broadway productions, as far as I can research, mention Davis. This claim is therefore either fictitious or inflated and needs to be indicated as a claim rather than a fact.
He was allegedly able to enter foreign countries using his World Passport. Which countries, and when? The World Government of World Citizens website is extremely vague about this, aggregating all alleged acceptances of the World Passport into one huge list without referencing specific examples, dates or the context of the admission by the appropriate authorities of the given nations. Are some of these Davis' entries into these countries? If so, which ones? Are there any reliable sources to prove it?
How did he renounce his American citizenship and work in the US until the end of his life? Indeed, did he renounce his US citizenship? If so, when, and where is it stated in a reliable source?

Unless I can come up with better answers for most of these questions, I am going to end up reducing this article to a stub — can anyone help me out on this, please? --Tristessa (talk) 21:13, 30 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]