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King started working with Bukka White when he was just 18. It was a short run. Please discuss before reverting. GenQuest 18:56, 22 June 2016 (UTC)

GenQuest, WP:BRD is being followed here: you were bold, I reverted, now we are discussing (except you reverted my revert instead of discussing first). Anyway, these are the problems with your edit:

• Years active: According to Troupe's linked bio, in 1946, King was still being taught by White and "though they never played in public they jammed together in private" and in 1947, he returned to farming. In 1948, he was playing on street corners and after returning to Memphis in late 1948, he entered "the music business". This source is used in the article. Another source first mentions "In 1948 King found employment with a blues group in West Memphis". He also began working for WDIA in 1948.(ibid) A new source is needed for beginning his career in 1946.

• Genres: Following template:Infobox musical artist#Parameters, the first letter in the first genre is capitalized: "Note: most genres are not proper nouns and should not be capitalized. However, the first word in a list of multiple genres should be capitalized".

• Occupation(s): Again, following the Infobox description: "Please observe sentence case and capitalise only the first letter of the first item (e.g. Musician, actor, singer-songwriter)".

• Instruments: Capitalization should follow Genres and Occupation(s), i.e., capitalize first term. Also, no explanation was given for removing the hidden note "If you think an instrument should be listed, a discussion to reach consensus is needed first". It was put there for a reason.

• Religion: This is not a supported parameter and therefore, it is not displayed. There is no point or benefit in including unusable, superfluous text in an infobox.

• Lead: No explanation for removing the non-breaking space. Its use is consistent with MOS:DATERANGE "between dates in different years" (although there should be two more).

—Ojorojo (talk) 14:56, 23 June 2016 (UTC)

@Ojorojo: Didn't realize they had finally formalized all that capitalization, etc. Your edit is good to go, so I have self-reverted. The religion thing is not me though, it's been there for a while. I'll kill it. Thanks. GenQuest 21:18, 23 June 2016 (UTC)

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