Talk:Roger Chapin

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More information about this article... The following comments have been left for this page: Why isn't Chapin and his wife in jail? Why didn't the government insist that they pay back the money to the vets? Why is he still walking around able to rip off more vets and hard working Americans? Justice has not been served! (edit)

[edit] Scam??

According to a recent NYTimes editorial (http://theboard.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/02/26/exploiting-the-troops-part-2/), many of Roger Chapin's "charities" for veterans appear to be dishonest and corrupt scams. This article appears to be blatant pro-Chapin POV. Anyone know more about this and able to rewrite it? ǝɹʎℲxoɯ (contrib) 05:54, 27 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] For future reference...

... or for an editor more experienced with and better versed in policy/style, Roger Chapin in his time at Middlebury was apparently quoted in an old article in Time Magazine (came up in a google search); anyways, just thought it might fit in when there's enough context for this kind of trivia.

Also, I hereby commit myself to fixing this article, ADHD/OCD be damned! Wikimancer (talk) 19:59, 22 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Article changes

An anon has been reverting the article to a version that removes proper citations and removes sourced criticisms. I've restored the prior version. I've also started a discussion on the issue at Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#Roger Chapin article.

Problems with the anon's version: POV pushing, removed sourced criticisms, uses cut-and-paste content from external sources with no clarification of copyright. The anon also blanked this talk page, attempting to conceal the criticisms in the two talk subjects above this one - which I've also restored. --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 16:06, 1 May 2008 (UTC)

I removed content that was copied word-for-word from Chapin's bio info from the HHV, as it was a direct copy there are potential copyright issues in that insertion. I agree that additional biography info would be beneficial; however, the added content is (a) a potential copyright issue, and (b) laced with peacock terms and fails NPOV. --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 01:01, 14 May 2008 (UTC)