Talk:Omali Yeshitela

Omali Yeshitela

Hi, 172. We need to look more closely at the Yeshitela article. At the moment it is a very sunny portrayal of a very controversial figure, and does not include much of the very conspicuous criticism of the man-- and the criticism it did include was poorly written and unsourced. Let's work on this together to find something everyone can agree on. I have put up an NPOV notice in the mean time, hoping to stop any future edit wars between you and the anonymous editor.

As for your removal of my edit from yesterday, you will notice that it was hardly vandalism. I removed Secretary Cisneros' praise of Yeshitela for several reasons.

First, it was irrelevant. Yeshitela has indeed been a major figure in St. Petersburg politics for years. Cisneros' kind words about Yeshitela are interesting, but they hardly represent a major event in the man's life, or a significantly prominent or deep commentary on his leadership. It might be reasonable to mention Cisneros' praise as part of a sentence regarding the reaction to the riots, but it is not appropriate to include it as prominently as it has been.

Second, the source is unfortunately not credible. The St. Peterbsurg Times, as you have suggested is a great source when news is cited. Elijah Gosier, however, is an opinion columnist, not a reporter. His column is interesting, and should be included in external links. It is not, however, an encyclopedia-quality source for article text.

I think removal of these sentences would be a good first step. Let me know what you think-- and Happy New Year if you are among those celebrating today. Cheers. ALC Washington 23:10, 1 January 2006 (UTC)

I'm not sure if I agree that the article is a "very sunny portrayal" of "a very controversial figure." It is hardly revealing and informative enough for me to imagine readers getting a very "sunny" impression of him. Further, I'm not sure if Yeshitela is notable enough to be considered "very controversial," at least outside St. Petersburg. I do see that it is light on the "very conspicuous criticism of the man." Still, there is no outright praise of the man to be found in the article; and criticism cannot go in unless it is well written and sourced. Moving on to your removal, regarding your first point, I must disagree with you on the relevance of Cisneros' comments. Cisneros is by far the most notable person who has ever commented on Yeshitela, who is not a well-known figure outside the St. Petersburg-Tampa area. One could say that his meeting with the HUD Secretary was Yeshitela's "15 minutes of fame," so to speak, among the general national news-watching U.S. public. Regarding your second point, I happen to be certain myself that Cisneros made the comment. I've been reading the Times for local news for many years. I remember running across those quotations in articles at the time, not just columns. I was not aware earlier that the source for the information was a Gosier column. Personally, from what I know myself about Gosier, I would trust him on factual claims like quotations. Still, you are right that an article should be found as a source instead of a column. I'll go ahead and try to find a link to an article. 172 23:32, 1 January 2006 (UTC)

ok seriously...

It would be great to even this article out with some slighlty less biased information- This article might as well have been handed out (by Yeshitela) during Yeshitela's mayoral run. The quote from Penny Hess and the personal section as a whole are especially hard to swallow.

inline refernces

please use inline refernces to validate the statements---Halaqah 12:15, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

Merge

This is all I have time for today, maybe someone else can tidy up the Advocacy section. --Uncle Ed 15:35, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

Removal from category:Political parties in the United States

He was the only article in the category that was not a party and his APSP is already included. --Sauzer 15:48, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

Notable?

Is this person notable? Dominick ^(TALK) 20:05, 20 August 2007 (UTC)

good question.

Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL

Some 10,000 google hits. 125 google news hits (the vast majority are the St. Petersburg Times bashing the man as a troublemaker). 15 google books hits. 10 google scholar hits. Notability as an US propagandist appears arguable, but somebody would need to actually argue it. dab (𒁳) 15:58, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

Tyron Lewis

How are these edits relevant? [1] This is not an article about a teenage motorist killed nearly 13 years ago. To my knowledge Yeshitela has never disputed the finding that the young man was suspected of drug possession. 172 | Talk 23:02, 6 July 2009 (UTC)

Relevancy apparently depends on one's viewpoint. In your opinion,

Yeshitela came under national attention in October-November 1996 when civil disturbances in predominantly African American South St. Petersburg were triggered by the police killing of Tyron Lewis, an 18-year-old unarmed African American motorist.

In your version, you find those facts relevant. In the other version, people have found relevant to note that

an 18-year-old who had an active felony warrant and was found with cocaine in his pocket, was shot after hitting a police officer with his car while trying to flee a traffic stop.

Both versions are factually correct; only that from your version one would conclude that the policeman just went crazy and shot the poor guy, from my version we learn that the guy had first 'hit the police officer with his car'. Admittedly, the longer version should be curtailed and the sentence changed to improve the language. --Miacek (t) 11:52, 7 July 2009 (UTC)

I don't want the article written as if we're endorsing the point of view, 'the policeman just went crazy and shot the poor guy.' At the same time, I am concerned about stating that Tyron Lewis 'first hit the police officer with his car.' I am a St. Petersburg resident. I remember the news reports very clearly. At the time some witnesses on the scene contradicted the police reports that the teenage motorist had used his car as a weapon... I'd actually prefer to avoid this controversy altogether, and avoid portraying both the police and Lewis in a negative light. After all, this is a biography about Yeshitela, not the young man who died in that 1996 shooting. 172 | Talk 01:18, 8 July 2009 (UTC)

Indeed, but the next sentence says Yeshitela condemned the killing as the culmination of a long pattern of repressive and racist measures by the St. Petersburg Police Department in African American neighborhoods, and rallied support for the victim's family in the black community. in the light of passage the killing as the culmination of a long pattern of repressive and racist measures it would be useful to mention briefly, that according to a POV, the policeman, who was doing his job - though acting recklessly -, was in fact provoked.--Miacek (t) 11:26, 8 July 2009 (UTC)

I do not not understand. The article states that Yeshitela considered the "killing as the culmination of a long pattern of repressive and racist measures." The article was not making that assertion itself. 172 | Talk 02:25, 9 July 2009 (UTC)

Name

Why did he change his name and what if any significance does it have? 71.108.137.226 (talk) 01:43, 30 April 2013 (UTC)

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He's been indicted by the Biden DoJ for saying Russia had good reason to invade Ukraine

I'm not going to edit the article, I know nothing of the man, I only looked him up because Tucker Carlson was giving a speech somewhere and mentioned that a black nationalist socialist from Florida was being persecuted for exercising 1st Amendment rights.

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/us-citizens-and-russian-intelligence-officers-charged-conspiring-use-us-citizens-illegal

The most effectual Bob Cat (talk) 13:50, 8 August 2023 (UTC)

Article quality is shockingly low and sources are inadequate

I am recording some information here because this article is nowhere near up to standards. The entire article is a puff piece clearly written with an obscene amount of flattery by sources closely linked to the article's subject. The vast majority of sources in this article are primary sources. It's inappropriate to cite an entire article with primary source material published by organizations directly controlled or led by the article's subject.

The vast majority of regular Wikipedia readers would have only heard of this person because of his DOJ indictment and subsequent conviction. I will update this section and provide relevant information with legitimate sources. But the task of cleaning up the paragraphs of blatant propaganda will have to be done by other editors.

I would recommend the following changes:

1. The article is far too long and should be greatly reduced. For a subject with only regional notoriety the lay reader does not need to be exposed to multiple paragraphs of puffery written by those close to the page's subject.
2. The information exclusively cited with primary sources or with sources/publications that the article's subject controls should be removed. If the information cannot be cited with a legitimate source it needs to be removed or rewritten.
3. The DOJ conviction needs a detailed and well cited section. 99% of readers will be exclusively concerned with this as it is the only reason why the vast majority of readers would have heard of Yeshitela.
4. Future edits or sections should exclusively rely on legitimate sources.

Biolaser (talk) 02:37, 19 September 2024 (UTC)