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Additionally, words and statements like "railroad to nowhere" need to be cited. I doubt that this phrase existed in the 1800s. This is a contemporary phrase, in the last 20-years, and thus it being the article smacks of
WP:OR and
WP:POV.
Who said this in the 1860s:
"that the project had no regard for trying to create a worthwhile and profitable transportation enterprise, when it was completed."
What happened as a result of this? Was legislation or corporate law changed in any way? Did anybody go to jail? Did anybody get their money taken away or given back? What was the short-term and long-term fallout? >
Best O Fortuna (
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22:32, 7 August 2010 (UTC)reply
This is an important topic. The tragedy is that no one, as far as I know, ever went to jail over this massive government fraud, just reputations damaged. It is unknown whose hands the millions of dollars it went into, possibly
Jim Fisk.
Cmguy777 (
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04:22, 9 August 2010 (UTC)reply
Credit Mobilier of America scandal--Reason for revisions
The paragraph that had a possible neutrality problem was removed due to its contents of opinion and speculation with no known and respectable source.
As for the Aftermath topic I have added a "Outcome" section to wrap up the scandal.
2) With headings in Wikipedia, you do not capitalize any words after the first word unless they are
proper nouns. SEE: MOS:HEAD
3) Don't remove taglettes unless you satisfy the requirement (s) of why they are there. "Refimprove" means just that, improve references. Not delete the taglette and move on. (SEE:
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4) Please, use the "
Edit summary" please to explain your edits.
5) And most important: Please, please, please, do not remove references. We should be adding references, not removing them.
With all due respect, it might be more helpful for Kimmy (not "Kimmyroo," unless you perhaps know her in real life?) if your comments, especially the last one, were a little less condescending. I'm sure it was all done in good faith.
Jtodsen (
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02:52, 21 November 2011 (UTC)reply
Plagiarism
The third paragraph, under "Background" sounds almost exactly like the wording in Steven Ambrose's book. The book is listed under the references, but the wording is not in quotations, nor is credit given to Ambrose for the phrasing. I know some words are changed, but this is not enough, IMHO, to justify such obvious "borrowing" from another's work.
98.170.214.134 (
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01:08, 25 October 2012 (UTC)reply
Garbled explanation of finances
This article doesn't make any sense. The government paid $94,650,287 to Union Pacific and $50,720,959 to Credit Mobilier of America (CMA), generating a profit of the difference of those two? It doesn't make any sense. Also, selling stock at par is very different from selling bonds at par. Maybe the explanation of what happened should be made as much as possible with contemporary terminology. I'm going to fix the article up to at least make basic logical sense.
Eujin16 (
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19:20, 30 October 2016 (UTC)reply
Greetings fellow Wikipedians ... I agree this is a tough article to follow. Partly because there isn't a separate article on CMA itself. I would propose retitling the article to Credit Mobilier of America (CMA) and making the "scandal" a section of it. At the very least developing another article on CMA itself and its ties to the
Union Pacific Railroad. I agree with
Eujin16 that the financial posed by CMA were very complex for the 19th century and need to be developed. I also think the conflict of interest and self-dealing issues need to be addressed as well as part of the broader 19th-century accounting crises that the railroad industry faced. Cheers ...
Risk Engineer (
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15:11, 22 December 2018 (UTC)reply
Requested move 13 February 2019
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OPPOSED: I am ok with the idea of a move to "Crédit Mobilier" but not to a scandal. Yes, there was a financial scandal but there was also more than just the scandal. I would suggest a new main article with that title "Crédit Mobilier scandal" referenced inside the current article. Many thanks for your edits Namiba. Cheers
Risk Engineer (
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14:08, 14 February 2019 (UTC)reply
Looking at the results on
Google Scholar, it seems highly likely that both the scandal and the company are notable. With that being said, this article is definitively about the scandal, so the discussion should be about whether to include "of America" or not.--
TM23:19, 14 February 2019 (UTC)reply
Support. Clear common name for this historical event. I doubt whether a standalone article could be written about the company apart from the scandal. The company in itself is the scandal.
Mackensen(talk)14:19, 14 February 2019 (UTC)reply
Thanks for the comment. I made these notes earlier and I think there is more than just the scandal. ...
"I agree this is a tough article to follow. Partly because there isn't a separate article on CMA itself. I would propose retitling the article to Credit Mobilier of America (CMA) and making the "scandal" a section of it. At the very least developing another article on CMA itself and its ties to the Union Pacific Railroad. I agree with Eujin16 that the financial posed by CMA were very complex for the 19th century and need to be developed. I also think the conflict of interest and self-dealing issues need to be addressed as well as part of the broader 19th-century accounting crises that the railroad industry faced." Cheers
Risk Engineer (
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14:59, 14 February 2019 (UTC)reply
Support per nom. Also, the construction company does not appear to be notable in and of itself. Only the scandal is notable. That's what all the sources appear to be about. So that's all we should have the article be about. I'm open to being convinced there are sufficient sources about the company independent of the scandal to warrant a separate article about the company, but as of right now I don't see it. --
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Poorly done
The article is poorly done and misleading. The Credit Mobilier was not a fraud --it successfully built one of the world's great railroads and opened up new farm lands that have paid lots of $$$ in federal and state taxes. The Union Pacific did not cost the Federal government of the taxpayer anything. (Washington loaned US bonds to the RR, which it paid back with interest.) It ignores its own sources: "The scandal caused intense excitement throughout the country, and the Mobilier Company met with almost universal execration; but subsequent investigation has shown that the charges were greatly exaggerated, and were at least never conclusively proved." says New Intl Ency. Maury Klein, Union Pacific has the fullest treatment. He says (p 300) no fraud but some bribery of Congress.
Rjensen (
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13:09, 18 July 2022 (UTC)reply