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RFC 2 at the Brown article

Thank you so much for pointing out that I am not alone in thinking that Tom Nolan (27 year vetean) is a BLP issue. It is not "obvious" to some, but it still is. Jay Sterling Silver's comments are pure opinion, a "guest columnist" blog article posted by Jay Sterling Silver which is little more than an Op-ed piece. The only problem with it... and I'm not sure of the term... Silver is not criticizing McCulloch directly - it is "is that there is an inherent conflict of interests in giving local prosecutors so much control over the decision whether to charge police for allegations of bias or excessive use of force — and a compelling need for an independent special prosecutor to handle such cases from start to finish."[1]

This is "cherrypicking" in a sense, but it is more dishonest because all context is lost and it turns Silvers into an probably unintentional accomplice in an attack on McCulloch. The words are "sort of there" because even the wording is pulled out of context and arranged to be worse, but it is not Silvers argument. Silvers makes a good argument which was ignored by Cwobeel and that is the problem which I have. Yes it is "cited with an inline citation" but it is so dishonest that you could not read the piece and come to the same conclusion as the article - unless you have well... an agenda. I'm sorry, it is an accusation but multiple instances of this really highlight the problem, but how is this not a perversion and BLP issue for putting words and meaning not contended by the "source"? I'm not eloquent, could you describe it better?ChrisGualtieri (talk) 00:06, 18 December 2014 (UTC)

ChrisGualtieri - It's just another example of the cherry-picking of sources and the quotes within to push a POV. The main problem with this tactic is that it doesn't provide the underlying point the author is making - it's not so much that he is criticizing McCulloch, but rather he is commenting on the need for officer-involved shooting and excessive force claims to be handled by independent prosecutors (which is a more valid and salient point that should have been included). It's my personal opinion that these comments were cherry-picked to show a negative opinion about McCulloch.
Or how about the opinion from the SCOTUS blog, the case the author is referring to in his blog is this one:
The WP article, United States v. Williams linked to in that section is from 2008 and is about pandering child pornography. Are you kidding me, whoever inserted this content didn't even check shit like this. And imo, the blog author is misrepresenting the facts as well and then in turn, they are being misrepresented here to implicate wrongdoing from McCulloch. He opines that it is not required for the prosecutor to turn over all exculpatory evidence, which is only true if the prosecutor is asking for and recommending an indictment. That wasn't the case here, the prosecutor didn't ask or recommend an indictment, they asked the jurors to investigate the evidence themselves to decide if there was probable cause, therefore, the prosecutor was then obligated to turn over all the evidence he had, including the exculpatory. So just because McCulloch had the constitutional right to withold exculpatory evidence if he had asked for an indictment, but instead, chose to recuse himself from the investigation and asked the grand jury to investigate instead and let them look at all the evidence, doesn't necessarily mean that choice was wrong or it was illegal or improper, and btw is a perfectly legal use of the grand jury process, which the author fails to mention. The way it's twisted and misrepresented here in the article is meant to imply that McCulloch did something wrong or illegal or improper. It'll take some work, but I think the NPOV, WEIGHT and BLP issues can all be fixed. Isaidnoway (talk) 01:27, 18 December 2014 (UTC)
Thank you for detailing that one with good arguments. I was set to attack the more obvious facets of the source, but yes the misrepresentation of sources and improper use of sources which misrepresent is an issue. The Tim Nolan one is so obvious and basic that Cwobeel and Ran1 are showing themselves to be moving towards CIR. At this point, repeatedly explaining and detailing why the argument, policy or source is wrong is falling on deaf ears. Cwobeel restored an issue which both of us agreed were BLP problems after I made a lengthy analysis of why it was a problem and replied to it. My section was up at 4:21, he posted a response at 4:31 and restored the material at 4:33.
It is not one BLP violation it is three separate accusations which are all connected to logical failures which should have been caught at the WP:NPOV or WP:RSOPINION stage. The article at the Daily Beast may have had an alternate name: Prosecutor Threw the Case Against Wilson, but we don't get one sentence before a critical error is made. "Robert McCulloch could’ve indicted Michael Brown’s killer himself." and the second sentence "Instead, he barely pushed the jurors to charge the cop and allowed the unprecedented step of letting the officer testify."
Nolan begins his argument with the conclusion. All of the arguments to make that case are simply resting on unsupported assertions or outright false ones. Like "[Grand juries] are at all times completely and unalterably under the control and direction of the prosecutor." We know this is false. The entire paragraph is based on and backed up by logical fallacies and convincing the reader his opinion is right because he says so. "It had nothing whatsoever to do with the evidence and everything to do with the prosecutor’s unwillingness to try the case in court and his reluctance to incur the wrath of the law-enforcement community to which he is so incestuously tethered." is a wonderful example of when to stop reading the article and others like it. Multiple assertions of absolutes and personal experiences to advance attacks - clearly not a source to use. Why Cwobeel and Ran1 are defending this suggests ignorance or worse. Examining other inclusions of "opinion as fact" may be easy, but I suspect many will be hiding. For an article under WP:NEWBLPBAN... this is probably par for the course, but I doubt there is enough evidence given the "first rule of thumb" explanation is not malice, but ignorance. ChrisGualtieri (talk) 05:50, 18 December 2014 (UTC)

Sigh

Talk:Shooting of Michael Brown#FPD sergeant - I think Cwobeel has been reading too many coverup and conspiracy blogs. Cwobeel is now making WP:SYNTH claims with this edit with the summary " (Not on the first interview. specifying when Wilson first said that he made an ID)" - Considering the "first interview" was not released how would he come to this conclusion? I think there is a major problem here. ChrisGualtieri (talk) 06:19, 28 December 2014 (UTC)

Thank you for that. This is another statement by Sue McGraugh which highlights the term's usage. It is a descriptor of sorts, but not a legal term which gets used a whole lot because it is very rare. Investigative typically gets applied to the grand jury investigating and calling witnesses itself, but leave it to an actual prosecutor to know the ins and outs of the specifics. No need to stop at the descriptor now. ChrisGualtieri (talk) 06:12, 29 December 2014 (UTC)

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It seems like your personality and/or abilities have changed for the worse. I hope you're OK. --Bob K31416 (talk) 02:50, 12 January 2015 (UTC)

I'm absolutely fantastic. Thanks for asking, hope you're doing OK as well. Isaidnoway (talk) 13:03, 12 January 2015 (UTC)
Good. Actually, I looked more deeply into a comment of yours and now understand what you were trying to say, which was alright, except for the interpretation of what I and CNN had said. So forget about my above comment. Regards, --Bob K31416 (talk) 13:13, 12 January 2015 (UTC)

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Columbia University rape controversy, I am not jumping to conclusions, but some solid sources defending Nungesser were removed possible editor bias is beginning to surface. Valoem talk contrib 18:19, 12 May 2016 (UTC)

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There is possible POV pushing, I do not want to jump to conclusions, but when comparing these two revisions an editor has systematic removed Nuggesser's defense including text messages which have been confirmed authentic by both parties. Sulkowicz has sent has annotated version to Jezebel which can be found here. Sometimes the best ways to write neutrally is to allow all parties to state their views plainly what do you think? Valoem talk contrib 13:50, 4 June 2016 (UTC)

Valoem (talk · contribs), thanks for the heads up, I didn't realize the AfD was over, I had been waiting for the AfD outcome because I didn't really want to invest a lot of time into an article that could have potentially been deleted. However, I will take a look and comment on the talk page of the article. Thanks.-- Isaidnoway (talk) 18:38, 4 June 2016 (UTC)

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Thanks for your reply at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lloyd Greif. I know that these exchanges can get pretty hot sometimes and I appreciate you keeping things cool and collegiate, even though we disagreed on the specifics of the article. Lankiveil (speak to me) 11:46, 3 September 2016 (UTC)
Well, thanks but apparently the administrator paid no heed to your view. He even closed it two hours after another editor had asked WikiProject Finance. He didn't even move it to userspace. I am discouraged and I feel totally undervalued here now...Zigzig20s (talk) 11:18, 4 September 2016 (UTC)

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Thank you JarrahTree 05:56, 5 October 2018 (UTC)

@JarrahTree: - sure no problem, I've always found when you're involved in a content dispute, the best solution is to go looking for sources to support your argument, instead of edit-warring over the disputed content (and also going to the talk page to engage). Those sources were easily found. I'm not going to get involved in that article, but it sure looks like the sources would support, at the very least - slave like conditions. Isaidnoway (talk) 06:14, 5 October 2018 (UTC)
I agree - those sort of arguments really are in the end counter productive - it is a received tradition of anthropology and history students at Universities in western australia that the slavery and indentured labour traditions went well into recent times and were well documented whether the culprits were interested in a written legacy or not... the state had the last convicts in the old systems - for Australia, and the conditions were monumentally unpleasant. A close look at components of the following catch - suggests it is still occuring... JarrahTree 06:22, 5 October 2018 (UTC)
Quite frankly, I was surprised (and appalled) at the amount of sources I came across when researching this subject, there's books and journal articles, here's one from the USA - Australia Comes to Grips With Slave History from as early as 1991 in the Los Angeles Times. I thought this woman's remarks summed up the whole debate quite succintly as to the terminology that should be applied to this practice of enslaving adults (and children) - we object to the use of the term “indenture” to describe what happened to our people when they were first brought to Australia. It’s a weak word that does not express the real truth of the physical and cultural theft of human beings. Isaidnoway (talk) 06:56, 5 October 2018 (UTC)
Yup - scratch Australian or similar colonial outposts of the empire, and it's there... JarrahTree 07:00, 5 October 2018 (UTC)

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Yeah, I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors as well, and fix those big red error in the articles. I can't believe I'm responding to a stupid bot. Never mind. Isaidnoway (talk) 04:27, 12 October 2018 (UTC)

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Hello could you please add language https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tr%E1%BA%A7m_H%C6%B0%C6%A1ng_Tower#References to https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Th%C3%A1p_Tr%E1%BA%A7m_H%C6%B0%C6%A1ng Bonthefox3 (talk) 00:03, 18 October 2023 (UTC)

 No - I am not a language expert. Isaidnoway (talk) 00:12, 18 October 2023 (UTC) ⋆｡°✩🎃✩°｡⋆
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