Talk:Lynching of Alfred Blount

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Deletion? Current version is all WP:OR based on primary sources

@BlakeKitterman: and others involved with this article. As I see it, the current version is pure WP:OR and extremely thinly sourced—meaning it's entirely based on primary sources, in the form of three partial Chattanooga Times articles from the days after the 1893 lynching. It's also riddled with inaccuracies and issues:

A full third of the article refers to Ed Johnson, who has his own more extensive article (which is where the very limited non-WP:OR information from this article should be).
The bridge has (from what I can see) four spans—so it's not possible there's a "latter span"—it was reported as the "second span".
Blount was shot and stabbed after being hanged, according to the primary source cited—the article reverses it.
Blount was not necessarily the second person lynched in Chattanooga—he is described as the second black man lynched there.
Carmencita is a singer, not an opera.
It references "Attorney-General Brown", although there was no Tennessee AG by that name—my assumption is that Brown was a local prosecutor.

I could go on, but suffice it to say that I don't think the article is worthy of inclusion. The only properly cited information—the fact that Blount was hanged from the same bridge as Johnson—is already in the Johnson article. I did a cursory search for secondary sources, and the only ones I found with real information about Blount are one from the Chatanoogan and one with far less from Cook at the Times Free Press. At least they're secondary sources that meet WP:RS. If someone wants to rewrite the article based on those or other reliable sources, I'm not opposed—but I think it should be considerably shorter in length than the current version—a handful of sentences is all the information supports. Thanks! Elle Kpyros (talk) 20:55, 14 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]