Talk:Court-martial of Terry Lakin

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The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that Lieutenant Colonel Terry Lakin invited his own court-martial to attempt to force Barack Obama to release the original version of his birth certificate?

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Reference ideas for Court-martial of Terry Lakin

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Dowd, Maureen (2010-12-14). "Usurper in Chief?". The New York Times. Fort Meade, Maryland. p. 31. ISSN 0362-4331. OCLC 1645522. Archived from the original on 2021-03-08. Retrieved 2024-03-15.

NPOV[edit]

According to my talk page, Prof. Mc (talk · contribs) added the NPOV template because he or she thinks this article would be better suited as a biographical article with the trial as one part of it. I disagree, saying that that would essentially be a WP:BLP1E since the only reason the individual is noteworthy is because of his trial and what surrounded it. I'd like to remove the tag, but wanted to give others the opportunity to discuss it here. — fourthords | =Λ= | 20:57, 12 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Given no replies here or at my talk page, I'm going to remove the NPOV tag. — fourthords | =Λ= | 00:33, 29 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Correct the Courtroom Sketch[edit]

I attempted to do it myself, but was unable to find the courtroom sketch when opening edit. That is not a picture of Lakin, who is bald and did not wear glasses. It bears no resemblance to Lakin whatsoever. That is obviously a picture of Colonel Gordon Ray Roberts, who was Lakin's commanding officer and a witness in Lakin's court-martial. If someone knows how to access the courtroom sketch illustration on this page, please correct the caption to reflect that that is Gordon Ray Roberts. 2603:9000:8D07:AAB0:20C6:85D5:86C9:8802 (talk) 12:42, 5 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Originally found at http://www.army.mil/-images/2010/12/17/94969/, the United States Army sketch by SSG Brown was accompanied by the caption "An illustration depicts Lt. Col. Terrence Lakin, left, with jury members during his court-martial Dec. 15, at Fort Meade, Md." If you have a reliable source to counter that claim, it can be incorporated into the article. — Fourthords | =Λ= | 18:51, 5 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Then we have to leave it the way it is, I guess. Though it's clearly ridiculous to leave it this way. As a Medal of Honor recipient, Gordon Ray Roberts is on Wikipedia, complete with a picture, and there is an abundance of pictures and videos of Terry Lakin available. Anyone who looks at those pictures will quickly see there's been a mistake. That's Gordon Ray Roberts. Gotta love policies that leave blatantly obvious errors in place. Adding to the stupidity, your linked source no longer works. That link you posted leads to nowhere. So, we can't even contact this source to let them know there's been a mistake.2603:9000:8D07:AAB0:FDF5:DE2E:9685:5C25 (talk) 22:24, 5 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]