Talk:Cameron Stewart

Photograph

In the process of procuring copyright/license permission for the file CSFanExpo.jpg or another similar more recent photo for the article. Would kindly ask user Sherurcij to stop re-editing the article to include the old photo.Seeamus (talk) 16:52, 14 July 2009 (UTC)

Once you have the new photo, we can delete the old one...but meanwhile, we should keep it up unless you are Cameron Stewart, in which case I don't mind leaving it off. Sherurcij ^{(speaker for the dead)} 20:04, 14 July 2009 (UTC)

Could you refrain from removing the old photograph in favour of your own prefered one which keeps getting deleted (as that puts the article back a step). If you need help with image licensing then ask we can see what we can do to help. (Emperor (talk) 16:44, 14 September 2009 (UTC))

Uncited material in need of citations

I am moving the following material here until it can be properly supported with reliable, secondary citations, per WP:V, WP:CS, WP:IRS, WP:PSTS], WP:BLP, WP:NOR, et al. This diff shows where it was in the article. Nightscream (talk) 18:23, 10 August 2020 (UTC)

He created art for an animated sequence at the end of the music video for Canadian pop singer Skye Sweetnam's 2007 song "Human".

He is a co-founder with Kagan McLeod, Ben Shannon, Steven Murray, and Chip Zdarsky, of the studio Royal Academy of Illustration and Design. He is also a co-founder of the Transmission-X webcomics collective.

The Allegations section

I'm an American writer who has taken an interest in the accusations leveled at Cameron Stewart. We don't like to admit it, but Wikipedia is the first place that many of us look. In addition to the articles themselves, Wikipedia provides two great resources for researchers: First, the sources for background information are explicitly provided so readers can follow up upon them. Second, the history of the articles as they have evolved over time are preserved, allowing us to determine who has written what and when. I have followed up on both of these resources, and this is what I have found:

1) The allegations were initially added based not upon news reports, but upon twitter posts by his accusers, Aviva Maï and Kate Leth, which predated coverage in the press: – the first of these doesn't even provide a reference

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cameron_Stewart&diff=962828679&oldid=962828622 https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cameron_Stewart&diff=962886720&oldid=962830400

It seems highly unusual that Wikipedia content would be based upon the posts of social media users, and suggests that the person who added this is connected to the accuser(s) in some way.

2) One of the IPs then edited the biographies of one of his accusers, Kate Leth to add the Cameron Stewart accusation and to change all the pronouns to third person plurals as well as adding "Category:Transgender and transsexual artists" – how would the IP know that this is what Leth wanted?

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kate_Leth&type=revision&diff=962916843&oldid=960777676 https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Contributions/98.19.225.184&offset=&limit=500&target=98.19.225.184

This biography is referenced overwhelmingly to twitter and other social media posts, which is very unusual for Wikipedia and – I think – generally disallowed:

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kate_Leth&oldid=1016922298 https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kate_Leth&action=history

If it were my call, I would say that the article Kate Leth should probably not exist at all.

3) Based upon the preceding two observations, it seems fair to ask if Wikipedia isn't just covering a news story but played a role in propagating it.

4) The Twitter posts

One must admire the attention to detail which went into formatting these references:

<ref>{{Cite web|last=Maï|first=Aviva|date=2020-06-15|title=https://twitter.com/avivamaiartzy/status/1272708780065796096|url=https://twitter.com/avivamaiartzy/status/1272708780065796096|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-06-16|website=Twitter|language=en}}</ref> <ref>{{Cite web|title=https://twitter.com/kateleth/status/1272738680512233472|url=https://twitter.com/kateleth/status/1272738680512233472|access-date=2020-06-16|website=Twitter|language=en}}</ref>

While not directly referenced here any more, these are important as they are the core of the story as it was reprinted elsewhere. Few of the press follow ups add anything besides uncritically repeating Aviva Maï's tweet alongside some quotes from Kate Leth, who, based upon the totality of evidence presented here, I presume to have been the one who pushed this story onto Wikipedia and into the press. There is no sign that anyone attempted to independently substantiate or verify either Maï's or Leth's claims.

Leth's initial tweet has since been deleted, though it still exists on webarchive:

https://twitter.com/kateleth/status/1272738680512233472 https://web.archive.org/web/20200616035316/https://twitter.com/kateleth/status/1272738680512233472

This was soon amended to clarify that she was 20 or 21, not 19 as first claimed, but I cannot find the tweet which I presume was also deleted (it is quoted here):

https://i0.wp.com/www.comicsbeat.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Screen-Shot-2020-06-16-at-8.52.50-AM.png?ssl=1 https://twitter.com/TanyaRi37670010/status/1273347482303500288

5) The Accusations text

The first three sentences of the Accusations paragraph read as follows:

"In June 2020, Stewart was accused by multiple women and non-binary people of predatory sexual behavior when they were fans or aspiring artists in their teens and early twenties, and he was in his thirties. A common complaint was that he used his status as a professional artist to foster their trust, as a pretext for sexual advances, which they likened to grooming. Those making the accusations included Kate Leth and Natasha Negovanlis.[11][12][13][14][15]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cameron_Stewart&oldid=1016168194#Allegations_of_sexual_misconduct

Based upon the sources as referenced, as well as others that I've read, these three sentences contain at least four rather consequential inaccuracies:

5.1) None of the referenced sources say anything about "non-binary people" – this was added by an IP with many edits to animation-related articles:

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cameron_Stewart&diff=967758920&oldid=967656243

Immediately thereafter, the same IP added "Category:Genderqueer artists" to Kate Leth:

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kate_Leth&diff=prev&oldid=967759329

5.2) Only one person likened anything to "grooming", and that was Aviva Maï on twitter. Yet here it is presented as a "common complaint." The word "grooming" is linked to Wikipedia's article Child abuse:

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cameron_Stewart&diff=962939125&oldid=962938050

Like the text itself, this link, added by the same IP which helped to build Kate Leth, suggests a degree of malice above and beyond the mere desire to report the facts.

5.3) Kate Leth accused him specifically of chatting up young – not minors – women, not "non-binary people.". Leth states that, when she was 19, then amended to 20 or 21, Stewart drew her a picture of Death on hotel stationary, and that later she "cockblocked" him (her words) when he hit on "college girls" at parties:

http://www.multiversitycomics.com/news/cameron-stewart-allegations/

I cannot see how this adds up to "child grooming," or really to any form of abuse at all. If Leth's claims are to be considered relevant here – and I'm not sure if they should be – they should be reflected for what they are: Stewart liked younger women and Leth went out of her way to "cockblock" him.

5.4) Natasha Negovanlis did not allege anything in particular, but stated "I have similar stories about him that I don’t feel comfortable sharing publicly at this time":

https://twitter.com/natvanlis/status/1272741642756403207

Thus, we cannot know what she does or doesn't mean to corroborate. This did not stop the IP from adding to her biography the following text: "In June 2020, Negovanlis has accused comic book writer/artist Cameron Stewart of sexually harassing her after several other women have come forward":

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Natasha_Negovanlis&diff=prev&oldid=962942072

It is perhaps telling that the IP presented her name aside and before that of the much better-known Negovanlis.

5.5) In sum, the claim put forth here that "Stewart was accused by multiple women and non-binary people of predatory sexual behavior when they were fans or aspiring artists in their teens and early twenties" is not supported by the sources at hand. This section, assuming that it should exist at all, needs to be rewritten.

I am curious to see if and how Wikipedia will react to and act upon this post of mine.2601:153:C003:6880:69C8:BF54:C453:74B7 (talk) 11:18, 31 May 2021 (UTC)