Talk:John Knight (soap maker)

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Issues[edit]

I did some work on the article and left some maintenance templates. Key issues:

In a few places (infobox birth name and father's name, a caption, and one ambiguous piece of prose), his surname was written "Knights" instead of "Knight". Since there was no mention of a name change, I assumed these to be typos and changed them.
The second 'graph at John Knight (soap maker)#Early life seems mis-placed and duplicative of later material. It should probably be merged into that later material.
The article seems to be mostly about the companies, not about Knight himself. Shouldn't the article title reflect that?
Find-a-Grave should not be used as a source (see WP:RS/P#Find_a_Grave).

—[AlanM1 (talk)]— 11:19, 30 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Pinging Knight1817. —[AlanM1 (talk)]— 11:20, 30 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

WikiTree[edit]

@Knight1817: I see you added WikiTree as a source for his mother's name. Looking at it, though, it appears (unsurprisingly) that it is a wiki without qualities like fact-checking and editorial oversight required of reliable sources. I didn't see any citable or verifiable sources on the page, either. This opinion is confirmed by previous discussions here and at Wikipedia talk:Reliable sources/Perennial sources#WikiTree just recently. —[AlanM1 (talk)]— 06:49, 3 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]