| This article must adhere to the biographies of living persons (BLP) policy, even if it is not a biography, because it contains material about living persons. Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately from the article and its talk page, especially if potentially libellous. If such material is repeatedly inserted, or if you have other concerns, please report the issue to this noticeboard.If you are a subject of this article, or acting on behalf of one, and you need help, please see this help page. |
 | This article is rated Start-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale. It is of interest to the following WikiProjects: | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Inappropriate Interlinks
editJust saying, I did not find any inappropriate interlink. They all sound reasonable. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gypsy.Jared (talk • contribs) 11:58, 27 March 2019 (UTC)
Copyright problem removed
editOne or more portions of this article duplicated other source(s). The material was copied from: http://web.archive.org/web/20071010061551/http://www.georgewashingtonwilliams.org/legislators.cfm?letter=B&legislator=30. Infringing material has been rewritten or removed and must not be restored, unless it is duly released under a compatible license. (For more information, please see "using copyrighted works from others" if you are not the copyright holder of this material, or "donating copyrighted materials" if you are.) For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or published material; such additions will be deleted. Contributors may use copyrighted publications as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences or phrases. Accordingly, the material may be rewritten, but only if it does not infringe on the copyright of the original or plagiarize from that source. Please see our guideline on non-free text for how to properly implement limited quotations of copyrighted text. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously, and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. While we appreciate contributions, we must require all contributors to understand and comply with these policies. Thank you. VernoWhitney (talk) 16:50, 11 October 2010 (UTC)
sourcing
editMofe to the point, I can find no reliable source even for existence. This is apparently the same person as Les Brown (motivational speaker), for whom I can also find no adequate source--see the talk page there. The complete absence for any new source in google news is very troublesome. DGG ( talk ) 05:16, 29 November 2010 (UTC)
Les Brown performance is outstanding he is regular coming to Europe. For april there is an event with him in the Netherlands
edithttp://www.eventbrite.com/e/tickets-les-brown-3-daagse-training-in-amsterdam-11-12-en-13-april-10565328181?aff=cornelis — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.204.62.96 (talk) 09:54, 17 March 2014 (UTC)
"You Have GOT To Be Hungry" Audio tape
editIn 1991 or so, Les gave a talk that his organization dubbed "You Have GOT To Be Hungry," on cassette, in which a man with the last name Mustafa introduced him, "Well, what do you say about a great man like Les Brown? You say, Mustafa, get outta the WAY!" In it Mr. Brown says, "Sometimes life will just quit beating you up. It says, 'He just don't know that he can't get over. Let's just let this one go!'", and "When will I become known as, 'The Great Motivator'? I'll become known when I'm KNOWN!" When you go after the things you want, you have to release your brakes and totally GO for it, no holds barred. That is the Les Brown message.
Somewhere in this article I would like to see this synopsis, with more specifics, but I lost his tape to an angry fire in 2011, so I am asking for someone from that organization to give more complete details regarding this recording. Thank You. FormerTrafficCrashPupil (talk) 04:26, 19 August 2019 (UTC)
Notability?
editAs far as I can tell, he's most notable for being Gladys Knight's husband. I've changed the lede accordingly. --Hipal (talk) 15:51, 9 May 2021 (UTC)