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The article is a hodgepodge of facts, written more like a promotional piece - an agent's summary - than a biography. Plus it's virtually unsourced. I'll see what I can do to find more references, and line things up the way bios ought to be; but I admit my shortcomings right up front and could use whatever help people may want to offer. Thanks! [[User:JohnInDC|JohnInDC]] ([[User talk:JohnInDC|talk]]) 20:35, 26 June 2024 (UTC)
The article is a hodgepodge of facts, written more like a promotional piece - an agent's summary - than a biography. Plus it's virtually unsourced. I'll see what I can do to find more references, and line things up the way bios ought to be; but I admit my shortcomings right up front and could use whatever help people may want to offer. Thanks! [[User:JohnInDC|JohnInDC]] ([[User talk:JohnInDC|talk]]) 20:35, 26 June 2024 (UTC)

:I've moved a few things around to clarify the formal positions the subject has held over the years. I removed a pull quote associated with the book he wrote - it looks like something that would appear on the book's own flyleaf, or put out by the publisher - and I couldn't find a separate, third party source for it. I also removed a sentence about attending Roosevelt University (a degree-granting institution) from ages 13-17. That seems a little too extraordinary to leave in without a source, and the one source now in the article doesn't really support it. (That one source seems to be locked behind a paywall. Archive.org provides an abstract, [[https://web.archive.org/web/20160305201703/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/chicagotribune/doc/283212217.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=May%2026,%201991&author=Barbara%20Revsine.&pub=Chicago%20Tribune%20(pre-1997%20Fulltext)&edition=&startpage=&desc=Rising%20star%20plans%20a%20musical%20homecoming link]], and newspapers.com a jumbled OCR excerpt, [[https://chicagotribune.newspapers.com/newspage/389591081/ link]], and from what I can make of it, the subject attended Highland Park High School and took lessons "at Roosevelt University's downtown campus", which in my reading falls a little short of "attending".). [[User:JohnInDC|JohnInDC]] ([[User talk:JohnInDC|talk]]) 21:27, 26 June 2024 (UTC)

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The article is a hodgepodge of facts, written more like a promotional piece - an agent's summary - than a biography. Plus it's virtually unsourced. I'll see what I can do to find more references, and line things up the way bios ought to be; but I admit my shortcomings right up front and could use whatever help people may want to offer. Thanks! JohnInDC (talk) 20:35, 26 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I've moved a few things around to clarify the formal positions the subject has held over the years. I removed a pull quote associated with the book he wrote - it looks like something that would appear on the book's own flyleaf, or put out by the publisher - and I couldn't find a separate, third party source for it. I also removed a sentence about attending Roosevelt University (a degree-granting institution) from ages 13-17. That seems a little too extraordinary to leave in without a source, and the one source now in the article doesn't really support it. (That one source seems to be locked behind a paywall. Archive.org provides an abstract, [link], and newspapers.com a jumbled OCR excerpt, [link], and from what I can make of it, the subject attended Highland Park High School and took lessons "at Roosevelt University's downtown campus", which in my reading falls a little short of "attending".). JohnInDC (talk) 21:27, 26 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]