Talk:MIT Crime Club

“"MIT Crime Club"” article redirects to this article. Dervorguilla (talk) 18:50, 2 January 2012 (UTC)

Personal interest in MIT Crime Club; rules

As mentioned in my User Page, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Dervorguilla

Special Interests • MIT Crime Club (past member & project-team advisor)

Full Disclosure of Interests

I declare that neither I nor any member of my immediate family has a significant financial interest in any … entity discussed in my edits or in any competing … entity.

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WP:BFAQ#RULES

The Club’s activities have been reported on at length by the Boston Globe, Boston Herald, Boston Magazine, and PI Magazine.

I have no current affiliation with the Club.  I do seem to have a relatively encyclopedic knowledge of the “factual information [in] third-party articles” about the group.

If the articles are authoritative and the information is factual, should it get published?

Dervorguilla (talk) 01:12, 3 January 2012 (UTC)

Personally, I think you'd be fine editing it directly, but you might inquire at WP:COIN and/or Wikipedia:WikiProject Cooperation about it. Allens (talk) 12:05, 12 January 2012 (UTC)

Edit requested

{{Request edit}} - done. Allens (talk) 12:13, 12 January 2012 (UTC)

Add text to sec. 3, Activities.

In 2005 the Club began rebroadcasting Harvard, MIT, and Cambridge police transmissions online.

-Dervorguilla (talk) 03:49, 11 January 2012 (UTC)

Add new sec. 5, Finances.

Finances
The club’s project funding is derived from alumni donations and from disbursements by MIT’s Association of Student Activities.  The school maintains an “MIT Crime Club Fund” to support the group’s initiatives.

--Dervorguilla (talk) 20:46, 11 January 2012 (UTC)

Changes made 5 November 2012

Concerning changes by Geoffrey to last version by Dervorguilla

  At § 0: OR, BLPGROUP, POV; no authority cited.  (Authorities cited in §§ 1 & 2 don’t support assertions.)

  At § 1: OR; REDFLAG, QS, BLPGROUP, POV; cited authority doesn’t support assertion.

  At § 2: OR; cited authority doesn’t support assertion.

--Dervorguilla (talk) 09:21, 17 November 2012 (UTC)

WP:OR  “If you use [even well-sourced material] … to advance a position not … explicitly supported by the source, you are engaging in original research.”

• No published source explicitly supports the editor’s position that the group isn’t operating on MIT’s campus or that it was derecognized sometime before 2012.

WP:REDFLAG  “Red flags … include … challenged claims that are supported purely by … [sources] with an apparent conflict of interest….”
WP:QS  “Questionable sources are those that … have an apparent conflict of interest.  Examples … include … [1] articles by any media group that … discredit its [holding company’s] competitors; [2] news reports by journalists having financial interests … in the [reported-on company’s] competitors….  They are not suitable sources for contentious claims about others.”

• The group’s members compete against the source’s members to obtain financial aid from MIT Student Life.

WP:BLPGROUP  “A harmful statement about a small group … comes closer to being a BLP problem than a similar statement about a larger [one]; and when the group is very small, it may be impossible to draw a distinction between the group and the individuals that make [it] up….  Make sure you are using high-quality sources.”

• According to ref 5, the group is made up of only ten individuals.  (And three of them are identified by name in the article or in a cited source.)

--Dervorguilla (talk) 11:30, 18 November 2012 (UTC)