"There was some kind of bug that I could not access this talk page, but continuing from User Escape_Oribt's talk page: 

 Thanks for taking the time to reply. The talk page is buggy right now. I can see the history of your edits but there is no section on the talk page for me to respond on it (its probably some temporary bug w Wikipedia). You make some great points. I can not reply to them here because it's not fair. I will say this in response to your "" I'd appreciate it if you restored the rest of my edit, rather than reverting the whole thing..."" Yeah, it's saddening when your edits get reverted, I will reevaluate your edits again and explain my actions and hopefully we can come to some consensus. As far as ""pinnacle"" goes, that's cited and its ""abstract"" which I want the intro to be. Please do not make the mistake of deleting uncited, bold statements like ""neutralised and tagged an unsourced but very bold claim (""an integral part of the development of popular music in Britain"" ... I most assuredly have that sourced from a book in the Lincoln Center Performing Arts library, I just have to find the book and author AGAIN. It's very, very, very hard to keep track of all the books about Robeson. I mean, look at that book list, its sick. Best regards. 

 btw, i revert my own edits cause I change my mind. So please do not take it that I do not value your input. The biggest conundrum in the Robeson article is what impact did Robeson's knowledge of his father being a slave have on the impact of Robeson's life - its the major problem of the article and one in which some people are very emotional about. Best regards. Ijustreadbooks (talk)  

 :The intro has to stay abstract 
 :The part about ""integral part of the development of popular music in Britain"" sits in a book at the Lincoln Center of the Performing Arts Library and the exact quote should be the ""greatest contribution to British arts was to popular music there"" <-I just have to find the book again. I had the book in my hands but it was such a strange quote that I did not annotate it. I spent a whole day (8 hours trying to find the book again, I failed. I will attempt again.) As far as the exact phrasing of ""integral part"", well, I have to find the book. 

 :In response to other criticisms on the intro 
 ::The article is not close to being complete so the intro is not a major concern 
 ::The intro has to be abstract, albeit backed up with statements and citations in the body of the article. 

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