Talk:Glenn Poshard

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[edit] Plagarism Controversy

The section on Plagarism Controversy has been deleted.

Please refer to Wikipedia:Biographies_of_living_persons for the academic standards that Wikipedia expects, Wikipedia:Reliable_sources.

The section contained poor references: footnote 1 only referred the article in footnote 2, attributing it without quotations as follows:

According to the Daily Egyptian, 14 sections of Poshard's dissertation has text taken verbatim from other sources without citing them. It also has 16 sections taken word for word from other texts, and they are cited but do not have quotation marks.

Footnote 2 contained no reference to either "14 sections" or "16 sections".

Footnote 1 did not contain the quotation marks found in the former Plagarism Controversy entry.

Footnote 1 does contain a quote regarding an anonymous group, "Alumni and Faculty Against Corruption at SIU", which is cited:

"These are allegations — and many others just like them — that have been made by this sad group of individuals bent on ruining the reputations of leaders and hundreds of faculty," Gross said. "Many of them are without merit. Others have some degree of merit and we're trying to address that as best we can.

Footnote 3 did not contain the quotation attributed to it by the sentence:

According to the Chronicle of Higher Education, "no one on [Poshard's] dissertation committee told him that he had to use quotation marks.".

Thank you for your attention to Wikipedia standards. Create42000 20:46, 30 September 2007 (UTC)

I see the section's been re-added and I'm strongly of the opinion that it should stay. Regardless of if the allegations are true or not, this is a pretty big scandal. Wikipedia's able to remark objectively on other incidents by presenting information about the controversy, so why can't we do that here? Wikipedia isn't here for speculation, sure, but this scandal exists. That's not speculation. 131.230.152.30 18:10, 7 October 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia is expressly not here to cast personal aspersions. Furthermore, the poorly sourced material was reintroduced without change. Since you are aware of some controversy, keep in mind that using Wikipedia to make personal charges severely undermines its credibility. Please find another outlet for your allegations. 170.206.224.54 21:42, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

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