Talk:T. R. M. Howard

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The article may be improved by following the WikiProject Biography 11 easy steps to producing at least a B article. --KenWalker | Talk 02:53, 29 June 2007 (UTC)

Whatever happened to the word colored? None of the people in this article are "black." Superslum 14:24, 21 May 2006 (UTC)

Abortion scandal

Howard's Friendship Medical Clinic ended up getting included among the seedy abortion mills featured in the Chicago Sun-Times expose, "The Abortion Profiteers." Mason himself was sued for performing the fatal abortion on Julia L. Rogers, who died of pneumonia and peritonitis after Howard poked a hole in her uterus. Evelyn Dudley and Dorothy Brown also died after abortions at Friendship. In fact, I had only known of Howard as a seedy abortionist until somebody searching for him ended up at my blog, and I backtracked their search. I was astonished to learn that Howard had actually had such an illustrious history.

I'll have to go back over my e-notes (which I don't have at this computer) to see what else I have on Friendship. ChristinaDunigan 13:02, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

Source, please?

This was in the article: "He also became well-known as a leading abortion provider and was arrested in 1964 and 1965 but never convicted."

Where is the source for this?ChristinaDunigan 13:19, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

Sources needed

All factual material, such as allegations about the Friendship Clinic or his actions, needs to be cited to Reliable Sources, such as academic books or mainstream newspapers/media.Parkwells (talk) 23:20, 14 June 2018 (UTC)

COI hatnote?

@MurrayGreshler: I see you added a COI hatnote to this article. Since this is a biography article for someone dead almost 50 years, what sort of COI are you seeing that caused you to tag this article? Grorp (talk) 06:35, 9 November 2022 (UTC)

See what I deleted from the article. MurrayGreshler (talk) 03:09, 10 November 2022 (UTC)

@MurrayGreshler: I cannot read your mind. Other than various copy edit bits and pieces, the only thing I see is that you removed (objected to) the raw url citation https://www-clinicalkey-com.proxy1.library.jhu.edu/#!/content/playContent/1-s2.0-S0002962917302860 which I had tagged in April (diff) because it leads to a login page at John Hopkins website and I don't have access to it (and without a title, I couldn't look for it elsewhere). The citation had been added a week or so beforehand (diff). But we have no idea what the content is, and I don't see any connection between Johns Hopkins and TRM Howard, so I fail to imagine why you think that is a COI issue rather than just content that you cannot verify yourself. Removing content and citations simply on the basis that you cannot access them violates WP:SOURCEACCESS; an unaccessible source does not mean it doesn't exist. Please explain your reason for using the COI tag, or remove the tag. Grorp (talk) 07:08, 10 November 2022 (UTC)