Talk:Custer Battles

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This article was cut-and-pasted from a website which called itself Disinfopedia. The factual accuracy and neutrality of the article should both carefully confirmed. Rossami (talk) 19:07, 7 Mar 2005 (UTC)

The article is taken from SourceWatch. The old "disinfopedia" name was derived from the subject of discussion. The website investigated sources of disinformation. The scope of the project has broadened and so the name of the website was changed. The sources for the article are mostly BBC and wire service articles. The objectivity of these sources is accepted. I think the disputed tag should be removed. DJ Silverfish 20:43, 2 May 2005 (UTC)

I have had a google news alert on Custer Battles for the last couple of months. The info in this article is consistent with that in the articles google dug up. So, I agree. The tag should be removed. -- Geo Swan 22:47, 3 August 2005 (UTC)

Can someone add more information about Custer Battles? I'm reading a book about corruption in Iraq and it is fascinating. It would be good to have information on each of the two individuals.

[edit] Recent Updates

I've been conducting significant research for a graduate paper on this topic, and have added some new information and changed some factual inaccuracies as well as straightened out some bias on both sides. There is so much to this case it's hard to capture it in one page, but the new changes make it a bit more complete. I've also taken out at least one link that was no longer valid or didn't work. Like a lot of other Wikepedia entries, the controversial ones start out based mostly on newsclips which are fairly biased, then evolve into a more centered approach based on primary sources. My goal in the coming weeks is to add some to the bibliography of this company, including several of the books that have featured their alleged fraud. It's a fascinating topic, as I've yet to meet one person who wasn't strongly on one side or the other regarding this company. I'm always interested if anyone has any first hand information about this company. Jpreston2008 03:44, 13 February 2007 (UTC)