Talk:Ralph Bunche

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Is he the first ethnically African or Black individual to receive the Nobel Peace Prize? If so, this may want to be mentioned in the article. --Dpr 03:01, 7 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

This shows "Bunche was the first person of color to receive the Nobel Peace Prize" --Ancheta Wis 21:29, 9 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Awesome! Thanks for your help. This man was a amazing American and a prominent world citizen. He deserves to be recognized...other than solely a conference/student center named after him at Howard University (yes I know there are some things in NYC and at UCLA also) --Dpr 21:43, 9 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Walk thru the eucalyptus trees, under Bunche Hall, and you will be in the Sculpture Garden at UCLA

File:BustOfRalphBunche,UCLA,BuncheHall.jpg

bust of Ralph Bunche,Bunche Hall UCLA

Stable version now

Let's begin the discussion per the protocol. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ancheta Wis (talk • contribs)

Oppose -- the references section is hardly robust. There are few direct links to sources throughout the article. The press paints a bull's eye on Wikipedia by pointing out factual inaccuracies. It seems like media suicide to even discuss "stabilizing" an article that has so few reliable references. Which is worse, "Wikipedia inaccurate for six minutes" (as per the recent Ken Lay flap), or "Wikipedia makes permanent version riddled with unsourced inaccuracies"? "Stabilizing" this article in its current form would be the tip of the spear for hearing a lot of the latter. JDoorj a m Talk 21:42, 11 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

To contain the forest fire that has this discussion spread across nine pages, I'd suggest discussion continue at the proposal talk page. JDoorj a m Talk 20:44, 12 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Strong Oppose due to the protocol you refer to not existing yet. Cynical 20:35, 30 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

One factual inaccuracy seems to be that "Ralph Bunche along with Eleanor Roosevelt were considered instrumental in the creation and adoption of the U.N. Declaration of Human Rights". He is not mentioned in this capasity in any of the recent scholarly works on the Universal Declaration (ex. Natalie Kaufmann; Mary Ann Glendon; Paul Gordon Lauren; Carole Anderson; Rowland Brucken; and others).

Darkened image

Someone has deliberately and carefully darkened the entire image of Dr. Ralph Bunche in the article page to make it appear that he was darker than he was in fact. He was not that dark. Velocicaptor 14:20, 26 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Care to supply any evidence for this accusation? The image is identicle in every way to the one at the LoC it claims to have been sourced from [1]. You've been warned about this before. Please stop. --Beaker342 14:44, 26 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I have deliberately taken many dark images while snapping pictures. I do not transmit those dark images into articles. Please do not erase my comments. Comments made on talk pages are supposed to remain on talk pages. Do not remove other editors' comments. Velocicaptor 11:17, 30 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Talk pages are to be used for improving the article. Your comments seem designed only to provoke. Furthermore, you have not provided any evidence in support of your claims besides the unfalsifiable assertion that the person who took the photo some 50 odd years ago had some sort of insidious agenda. The image is being used because the Library of Congress has released it into the public domain. You have been warned about using talk pages for making offensive and/or racist comments before. Stick to topics unrelated to race and you should stay out of trouble. --Beaker342 16:08, 30 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

An accurate photograph would make improvement

This "internet version" of Dr. Ralph Bunche is the darkest photograph of him in existence on earth. He was not that dark. Velocicaptor 22:11, 1 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I don't know when you were born, but the term "darky" hasn't been acceptable for about a hundred years. Stop it. You are being extraordinarily offensive. --Beaker342 22:28, 1 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]