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Information about Piece's resignation from DEN over alleged sexual harassment keeps getting removed from the article. I want to put references here so that they are not lost as the article continues to have negative information removed.
above you state that the Wired Magazine Article on Den IPO includes mention of "and sex trafficing charges brough against Piece
http://www.wired.com/gaming/virtualworlds/magazine/16-12/ff_ige?currentPage=all ". I read the article and nowhere is the term trafficking even used, nor is there a single mention of charges of sex trafficking being brought against Pierce. It is a shame that some people are not even able to read, write without spelling errors and are intent on using wikipedia to spread false information and then lie that it is supported by a source when it explicitly is not.
SMendel (
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17:28, 11 March 2022 (UTC)reply
An ip address belonging to ogaming.com, 66.253.32.34, has been editing this article, removing information. Ogaming.com is registered to Brock Pierce. Wikipedia's stance on editing articles about oneself: "It is difficult to write neutrally about yourself. Therefore, it is considered proper on Wikipedia to let others do the writing. Instead, contribute material or make suggestions on the article's talk page and let independent editors write it into the article itself."Wikipedia:Autobiography
My edits were reversed for failing to mention them in the edit page. My apologies. On that note, though, the sourcing in this article does not support the references to sexual harassment allegations against the subject of this article. These are rather serious claims, and the only one of the three sources that even implies Pierce's involvement is a tabloid website. The others make no reference to Pierce in the context of sexual harassment allegations, other than to mention that they were denied by the company. These allegations simply do not belong in a encyclopedic article about an individual. The arrests in Spain, as well as the "fleeing" allegation, are also PoV, if not libelous.
all the sources document them leaving the country and the new york post article is not only cited in the sentence, but says almost verbatim what is in the article (don't just rely on the summary). -
Ocatecir21:02, 25 January 2007 (UTC)reply
[1]: "The founders of flopcom Digital Entertainment Network (DEN) are still languishing in a Spanish jail, and investigators in the US are stepping up efforts to bring them home to face sex offence charges. DEN co-founders Marc Collins-Rector, Chad Shackley and Brock Pierce were arrested in June on an international warrant after being indicted in New Jersey on five counts of transporting a minor across state lines for the purpose of engaging in sexual acts." -
Ocatecir21:04, 25 January 2007 (UTC)reply
Thanks for the reply. I don't know how I missed the last citation, though it seems to me that it's the only one that supports the obviously central point of the sentence (which isn't that he left the United States, obviously). Good word and advice. Thanks.
Groundworking21:10, 25 January 2007 (UTC)reply
Apparently Brock Pierce has left IGE - details a little unclear, but apparently its now owned by Jonathan Yantis, who was part of some company IGE bought. I also heard this from private sources in addition to the article linked below
Brock Pierce has left Affinity Media (The umbrella company around Zam and formerly around IGE). I violate the neutrality rule since I work for Affinity, so I'll post it here on the Talk page.
"Brock Pierce is a major shareholder in IGE" needs a more modern citation, since all of the affinity business has occurred since that article was written, and it is no longer apparent that he is. —Preceding
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There is a lot of story behind this guy. Plus a bonus connection to
Steve Bannon, who took over from him as CEO of his flagship company. Detailed tellings of the story in the above main link, and:
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Require more than "guilt by association" claims and references to civil lawsuits against others. He may be Satan Incarnate, but Wikipedia has strong protection for living persons, and we ought not ignore the policy.
Collect (
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14:18, 13 March 2018 (UTC)reply
@
Collect: Indeed. There seems to be some edit-warring going on over this, including enthusiastic attempts to censor the account of the article subject himself.
MPS1992 (
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00:32, 18 July 2018 (UTC)reply
Noted invitation to join a discussion but there is no discussion related to the reverted edit. The self-serving statement has no impact one way or another on the question of guilt by association. Assuming you think this particular discussion piece is relevant, explain how the deleted material assists in reducing a (perceived by Collect) guilt by association message in the article. I remind editors that their reversion of other editors' work must provide strong reasons. It is a discourtesy to make such reversions without reasons and, of course, gives rise to a technical edit-war condition much earlier than it otherwise may. So bear this in mind for your future editing.
sirlanz01:50, 18 July 2018 (UTC)reply
Bear in mind that multiple editors have now taken issue with your additions. We do not include information on or even implication of serious crimes such as the exploitation of children based on the fact that someone he was associated with was convicted. If some other individual was convicted, and they have a main article, the information should be added there.
GMGtalk14:54, 19 July 2018 (UTC)reply
It's understandable that GreenMeansGo might have got the wrong end of the stick here. The material the subject of differing views is not my addition. I took the first step which was to delete the material. One other editor thinks the material should stay; another thinks it should stay but subject to some changes for neutrality.
sirlanz01:42, 20 July 2018 (UTC)reply
From taking a look at the sources (and others) its clear its only by association - personally I find the claims he was unaware of being wanted dubious given the circumstances and timing but its also very clear that a)there is no criminal charges related to him that were ongoing, b)the articles when talking about the criminal charges are almost entirely about his associate, with Pierce only mentioned in passing as his co-founder/employee etc. So I would not include any of the material per BLP.
Only in death does duty end (
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15:55, 20 July 2018 (UTC)reply
The event was well covered in the media and has ongoing coverage with the subsequent documentary. Inclusion is
WP:DUE and we will not censor it out of the article just because some
WP:SPA accounts are here to challenge it. There is plenty of coverage (entire articles) relating to Michael Jackson's sexual abuse allegations (many of which were dropped or settled out of court).
Jtbobwaysf (
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05:06, 17 March 2021 (UTC)reply
Michael Jackson settled lawsuits out of court for cash settlements and has living people who still accuse of him sexual abuse. Brock did not settle with any of the plaintiffs and they ALL voluntarily retracted their civil suit against him, after which they apologized to him. The chief plaintiff, Michael Egan, who initially asked Pierce to join the lawsuit as another Plaintiff (since Pierce himself was a minor at the time of the alleged abuse), has been convicted in federal court for fraud (see here:
https://variety.com/2015/biz/news/bryan-singer-michael-egan-sex-abuse-1201656874/ ) and has openly admitted to making up false claims of sexual abuse to extort wealthy individuals and enrich himself. Jackson is also dead, and Pierce is alive, which means the bar for writing libelous material about Pierce on wikipedia page is much higher.
SMendel (
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21:02, 26 April 2022 (UTC)reply
Removal of "Child sexual abuse allegations" as a sub heading
Removing this as a sub under Digital Entertainment Network is justified. The article clearly states he was a minor at the time and all charges against him were dropped. The predator was Marc Collins-Rector. As a seperate heading, it is potentially libelous. I didn't remove the content although that could be up for debate because this was another "guilt by association" claim.
Oscarmckinney (
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22:05, 16 March 2021 (UTC)reply
I will just add this, from the wikipedia guidelines on articles written about living people: "Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately from the article and its talk page, especially if potentially libelous." The lawsuit in question was retracted by the plaintiff and the plaintiff later admitted to fabricating multiple stories in an effort to receive cash settlements. Given this context, it IS libelous to present a retracted case by an admitted fraud not by its actual legal title but with the libelous term, "Sexual abuse allegations." — Preceding
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04:46, 23 April 2022 (UTC)reply
Promotional edits
SMendel (
talk·contribs) I rolled back your edits as you have been adding what appears to be promotional content to this article. Please review
WP:MOS and note that the long quotes are not acceptable, and generally promotional wording is also not allowed. Please also disclose if you have an
WP:COI to this article. This article is about a cryptocurreny subject and sanctions are currently in place on this range of articles. Thank you!
Jtbobwaysf (
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05:34, 11 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Jtbobwaysf (
talk·contribs) I was not writing any promotional content on this article. Read the edits and point to one promotional thing I wrote. Everything I wrote was based on recent news sources and most of it direct quotes. Wikipedia is a place that was created for accurate information to be disseminated and I think that your attempt to censor my referencing and citation of dozens of actual news sources about the subject of the article goes against the principles of this platform. I have no WP:COI to this article. I am someone who is reads the news and follows cryptocurrency and politics closely. I noticed that the wikipedia page was missing much of the latest news about Pierce so I decided to add to the page to more accurately reflect the current information with sources that are publicly available on unbiased news publications and websites. I would like you to closely read all of the edits I made and reconsider your hasty attempt to censor me because of your pre-judgement. I explicitly cited a Master's Dissertation by someone who is arguably unsympathetic to Pierce and discusses a relationship between energy colonialism and cryptocurrency.
SMendel (
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05:57, 11 March 2022 (UTC)reply
taking into account your comment about long quotes, I edited the article accordingly to remove long quotes and made sure that my writing style adheres to the wikipedia norms.
SMendel (
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06:25, 11 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Do you have a
WP:COI relating to this article? Please remove all the quotes you have added, they are generally not
WP:DUE. A masters dissertation is not an
WP:RS on this article, nor are any blogs, etc. Please remove all that. There is a clearly established consensus to clamp down on promotionalism and strengthen sourcing in crypto subject articles, thus your revert is a violation of policy. You have admitted you are a cyptocurrency enthsiast and this is a crypto subject, you must follow those guidelines.
Jtbobwaysf (
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02:34, 12 March 2022 (UTC)reply
@
David Gerard: maybe you could watch this article. Seems that the article is now subject of PR edits. Large insertion of content relating to article subject's
wife, some quaisy philanthropic organization, quite possibly paid PR edits. I did a rollback, which was reverted by the user that added it, and so I subsequently have gone through and removed some of the bad sources, but in general its a lot of spin. Thanks!
Jtbobwaysf (
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09:58, 12 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Bitcoin foundation
It says on this article that the subject is the chairman of the bitcoin foundation. But there do not seem to be any
WP:RS to support this. Is this true?
Jtbobwaysf (
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08:19, 13 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Interestingly, the text of this article states that "[t]he organization announced its insolvency in July 2015." In addition, the
Bitcoin Foundation article describes the entity using the past tense, so it's not clear to me whether this foundation even currently legally exists. In a web search, there are passing mentions of Pierce as being the chairman of a Bitcoin Foundation, but nothing substantial, and it's unclear to me whether this is the same Bitcoin Foundation that's wikilinked in the infobox (it's possible for two nonprofits to have the same name).
Aoi (青い) (
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08:56, 13 March 2022 (UTC)reply
I favor "sexual abuse allegations" as it summarizes the section, that include both a lawsuit and an arrest. It is not limited to a lawsuit. Note this article is often subject of promotional edits, see notes above on this talk page.
Jtbobwaysf (
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23:14, 23 April 2022 (UTC)reply
It is very clear that
Jtbobwaysf is intent on making libelous edits that spin voluntarily retracted allegations as current. this is a violation of Wikipedia's guidelines on pages about living people. Moreover, this user has removed edits I and other editors I made under the false pretense that I have a conflict of interest and made promotional edits. Just because you do not agree with someone's edits, does not make them wrong or promotional. Every edit i made was sourced in recent news articles and was written in an objective, unbiased voice. By contrast, the edits [User:Jtbobwaysf|Jtbobwaysf]] has made constitute vandalism of this page insofar as he removed parts of Pierce's life and career that have been established in the media and were added to the page by volunteer editors such as myself. I hate to see a living or even dead person's name tainted by false accusations and slander.
SMendel (
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20:50, 26 April 2022 (UTC)reply
Stop talking about them, stop responding to them. It's not constructive, and it only makes it more difficult to get any sort of consensus. We get it, you two disagree. That's why there are other editors here responding to the RFC.
ScottishFinnishRadish (
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21:01, 26 April 2022 (UTC)reply
Remove from career, put in personal life without it's own heading. Sexual abuse allegations is a loaded heading for allegations that were dropped without settlement. There's also a victimization angle to look at, as the subject was also a minor at the time. Also, it wasn't part of his career, so why keep it there. It can be moved to personal life, without a heading, and provide all the necessary context.
ScottishFinnishRadish (
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20:21, 24 April 2022 (UTC) (
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I support this move to put in personal life. There has been an effort to water down the allegations aka down-weight (or remove entirely at times). The allegations are the subject of a whole section of a movie, pretty in-depth coverage and the attempt to down-weight or remove is ongoing on this article.
Jtbobwaysf (
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03:26, 26 April 2022 (UTC)reply
I also support moving this section to personal life without its own heading. I agree with
ScottishFinnishRadish that "Sexual abuse allegations is a loaded heading for allegations that were dropped without settlement."
Jtbobwaysf is incorrect and perhaps slanderous to compare the allegations against Pierce to those levelled at Michael Jackson for three important reasons: 1) Michael Jackson has numerous living accusers and was openly courting little children to sleep at his house, making the allegation of sexual abuse very believable. Many of Jackson's accusers hold fast to their accusations of abuse. He also paid settlements to some of them, further adding weight to the narrative of his accusers. In contrast, there is not a single living person who is currently accusing Brock Pierce of sexual assault. Every single person in the lawsuit who accused Pierce has apologized and voluntarily retracted their suit against him without any settlement. The only money paid was a little over $20k that Pierce paid to the lawyer of the plaintiff for his legal fees (as the lawyer did not want to drop the case without being paid). 2) the main accuser/plaintiff in the civil suit (I repeat this was a civil and not a criminal case), Michael Egan, has admitted to falsely fabricating stories of sexual abuse in order to receive cash settlements in addition to being literally convicted by the Federal government for fraud. This completely discredits the allegations against Pierce. 3) Brock Peirce is a living person. Michael Jackson is dead. This is a major distinction for wikipedia as wikipedia establishes explicit protections to prevent libelous and slanderous information from being spread on pages about living people.
No opinion on the merits of this, but we can't possibly use an argument from the subject's own personal website as a reliable source for any of this. In fact, including these arguments on this talk page may well be a BLP violation against Egan since they're not being reported by a reliable source.
Aoi (青い) (
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20:49, 26 April 2022 (UTC)reply
@
96.86.0.73:, we got an
from someone claiming to be with Marine Toys for Tots and stated they had no affiliation. I will
WP:AGF here and assume this is correct. If you would like to disclaim the affiliation, please issue an announcement on your official social media channel (eg twitter/fb), in the press, or on your website and we will add that you have disclaimed this affiliation. An editor rightly re-added the content, as absent some other content, we have to follow what the sources say. Thank you!
Jtbobwaysf (
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10:08, 5 January 2023 (UTC)reply
Introduction:
I am initiating a thorough review and revision of the
Brock Pierce Wikipedia article. Based on recent observations and feedback from the talk page, it appears there has been an effort to present a biased view of Pierce's life and career, potentially overlooking negative aspects and critical viewpoints. This review aims to ensure that the article adheres to Wikipedia's guidelines for neutrality, verifiability, and reliable sourcing.
Scope of Review:
Neutrality: Evaluating the article for any biased language or undue emphasis on positive or negative aspects of Pierce's life. Ensuring that the article presents a balanced view.
Citation Check: Double-checking all citations to ensure they are from reliable sources. Verifying that information is accurately represented and that citations support the claims made in the article.
Addition of Missing Information: Incorporating well-documented facts and events that may have been omitted. This includes both positive and negative aspects of Pierce's career and personal life.
Removal of Unsourced Material: Identifying and removing any unsourced or poorly sourced material, in line with Wikipedia's verifiability policy.
Talk Page Discussion: Engaging with other editors on the talk page to discuss changes and ensure consensus on controversial edits.
Initial Findings:
Bias and Whitewashing: There are sections that seem overly favorable towards Pierce, potentially downplaying controversies or negative aspects.
Source Reliability: Some sources currently cited may not meet Wikipedia's reliability standards. A review will help in identifying and replacing these with more credible references.
Missing Controversies: Notable controversies and criticisms related to Pierce are underrepresented. These need to be included to provide a comprehensive view of his public life.
Action Plan:
Neutral Language Adjustment: Rewriting sections to remove any promotional tone and ensure neutrality.
Citation Audit: Systematically verifying each citation for reliability and relevance. Replacing weak sources with stronger, more reputable ones where necessary.
Balanced Content Addition: Adding well-sourced information on controversies, legal issues, and criticisms to balance the article's content.
Collaboration and Consensus: Actively participating in talk page discussions to seek input and reach consensus on significant edits.
Conclusion: This review is undertaken with the goal of improving the article's accuracy, neutrality, and compliance with Wikipedia's content policies. I encourage other editors to contribute constructively to this effort and engage in discussions on the talk page to ensure a collaborative editing process.
Lustigermutiger21 (
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07:42, 30 July 2024 (UTC)reply
I have revised the header to provide a more balanced overview, including a mention of high-profile controversies along with Pierce's achievements in the cryptocurrency industry and his acting career. The 'Personal life' section has been updated to detail career controversies, legal issues, and notable connections, while maintaining a neutral tone and adhering to Wikipedia guidelines. Additional information on his relocation to Puerto Rico, his involvement in cryptocurrency, and his 2020 presidential candidacy has been included. These changes aim to present a comprehensive and accurate portrayal of Pierce.
Lustigermutiger21 (
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10:15, 30 July 2024 (UTC)reply
This article has been subject of multiple apparently PR driven edits over the past couple of years, especially when the subject was running for political office. We saw a large effort to whitewash out the sexual abuse allegations. Feel free to edit the article and propose changes. Thanks!
Jtbobwaysf (
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10:42, 30 July 2024 (UTC)reply
Normally we would not put controversies in the lead, it is very high weight. But I think the subject is probably most known for them. Please discuss more here. See
WP:NOCRIT. Certainly the general wikilink is not needed. Please discuss the balance here, or might want to remove it or find another way to word it (I dont have an idea right now). Thanks!
Jtbobwaysf (
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09:05, 31 July 2024 (UTC)reply