User talk:Titanic1986

October 2011

Please do not remove content or templates from pages on Wikipedia, as you did to Charles R. Pellegrino, without giving a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. Your content removal does not appear constructive, and has been reverted. Please make use of the sandbox if you'd like to experiment with test edits. Thank you. Sparthorse (talk) 19:21, 26 October 2011 (UTC)

The fact that the blogger is not reliable would definitely be a problem if that were the only source of the material. But the material you removed is sourced to the New York Times, the AP and The Weekly Standrad and thus is reliable per Wikipedia's rules. Removing that and replacing it with unsourced speculation is not appropriate. And to describe the facts as "slander" displays a profound misunderstanding of the definition of the word "slander". Please stop adding hagiographic personal opinions to Wikipedia articles. Pellegrino clearly doesn't have a PhD, so adding the title "Dr." to his name is highly inappropriate. Sparthorse (talk) 20:18, 26 October 2011 (UTC)

You wrote on my talk page: "Well in that case, if you find the cited sources sufficient to prove Charles Pellegrino lacks a PhD (which I know is not the case), is it not enough that the article is called "Charles Pellegrino" instead of "Dr. Charles Pellegrino"? Why is it necessary to report such controversial material on the article that can potentially harm the author? How does dedicating such a remarkable amount of the article to this issue make the article objective? Is Pellegrino's career truly defined by this one incident alone?"

Yes, I find the three reliable sources and the University of Victoria to be credible in this matter. Clearly Pellegrino does not have a PhD. Even Pellegrino is quoted as saying the university had stripped him of his PhD. Did he say that? Is Victoria University incorrect when they state "“He submitted a thesis which in the unanimous opinion of the examiners was not of a sufficient standard for a Ph.D. to be awarded”? If the awarding University says he doesn't have a PhD, I believe them. I wonder why you don't. Anyway, no article about a person with a PhD contains "Dr" in the title, per Wikipedia's manual of style. If you feel the article is unbalanced by the prominence of the material on his false claims to a PhD, then I suggest you discuss this matter on the article's talk page: Talk:Charles_R._Pellegrino. You could claim that this matter is being given undue weight, though personally I don't agree with that position. Sparthorse (talk) 00:12, 27 October 2011 (UTC)