Talk:Chad L. Coleman

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On 4 July 2022, it was proposed that this article be moved from Chad Coleman to Chad L. Coleman. The result of the discussion was moved.

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It's pretty obvious to anyone with eyes that Chad Coleman was not 29 years old when he filmed season 3 of The Wire, which he would have been if the 1974 birthdate is accurate. For more objective info:

• Coleman claims that as he was planning to attend college, the Reagan administration changed rules on student funding. If he was born in 1974 and graduated high school at age 18, then he wouldn't have been applying for financial aid for college until 1992, almost four years after Reagan left office. See: https://www.hobotrashcan.com/2008/02/07/one-one-one-with-chad-coleman/

• This article says he was in the 10th grade in 1982, but if he was born in 1974 he would have been 8 years old at that time: https://richmondmagazine.com/arts-entertainment/survivor-man-02-27-2013/

• All references to Coleman's high school years state that he attended Armstrong-Kennedy High School in Richmond. Armstrong-Kennedy only existed from fall 1979 to spring 1986. He could not have attended the school at all during normal high school age if he was born in 1974. see: https://www.rvaschools.net/Page/668

• This article says he graduated high school in 1984: http://www.richmond.k12.va.us/departments/public-information/assets/pdfs/InFocus56.pdf

• This article, dated December 2014, says he was 47 years old at the time: http://richmondfreepress.com/news/2014/dec/12/personality-chad-coleman/?page=3 This gives a birthdate of either the very last days of 1966, or sometime in 1967. The 1967 date matches all of the other information above and is more likely correct than the 1974 date.

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is not a reliable source. You don't need to disprove IMDB, it should not be used for dates of birth and should have been removed already.

If you a reliable source with a specific date of birth cannot be found then it his date of birth may need to be removed entirely from the article. -- 109.76.200.55 (talk) 06:01, 31 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]