Talk:African Americans in the United Kingdom

Oona King is MLK's niece? I haven't found any evidence for that, not in the Oona King article or in her own biography. Must be a mistake... 87.236.134.146 (talk) 12:36, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

She isn't. I'm deleting this as factually inaccurate. Indisciplined (talk) 22:48, 5 August 2008 (UTC)

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Removal of unreferenced text

I have removed this text from the article. Firstly, the point about African Americans' census-filling habits is something that I doubt very much a reference exists for. Secondly, the use of statistics about the proportion of African Americans in the American population is misguided since there's no evidence that the proportion of American emigrants to Britain who are African American is the same. Thirdly, as Jimbo Wales has stated: "There seems to be a terrible bias among some editors that some sort of random speculative "I heard it somewhere" pseudo information is to be tagged with a "needs a cite" tag. Wrong. It should be removed, aggressively, unless it can be sourced". As it states at Wikipedia:Verifiability, "The burden of evidence lies with the editor who adds or restores material". Cordless Larry (talk) 22:58, 25 November 2008 (UTC)

On the census point, this document states the proportion of people ticking the 'Other Black' box who were born in North America, but since it doesn't cover the 'Black Caribbean' and 'Black African' categories, we can't know whether Americans tick those boxes too. Cordless Larry (talk) 10:56, 26 November 2008 (UTC)

I have again removed the statement that: "The UK Census used the term Black British which was split further in to Black Caribbean, Black African and Other Black - African American Britons were likely to have chosen the latter, and would have been one of the largest contributers to the group". People born in the US made up a very small proportion of the 'Other Black' group, as demonstrated by the paper linked above. Cordless Larry (talk) 19:06, 6 April 2009 (UTC)

Removal of Wiki-project

As this artcuile has been merged with another article. I have removed the Wiki-project banner. The target article has the same banner. Martinvl (talk) 12:48, 9 November 2012 (UTC)