User talk:Confuseddccop

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Sexual harrassment article
Do you have a case number for this article? I can retrieve the court documents out of the PACER system and use them as sources for the article. It's also really too long to belong in a shorts piece. --Brian McNeil / talk 09:13, 24 June 2007 (UTC)
 * I've seen some of the court documents on this now, if you can click on my "talk" link and add a comment it is easier than email, and the questions I have to ask are, "Is this copied", and "do you have any more online sources?". The former question is due to the fact that you're probably like most people and don't know the intricacies of copyright law, and the latter is because if a little rewrite is done based on reading multiple sources we can publish the story.
 * The story has been moved out of "shorts" and into its own article, here, you are most welcome to add notes and the like on the talk page, please explain a bit about how you came to know this to either confirm or deny that you are an involved party.
 * Sorry to seem to be hassling you about this, but it sounds like an interesting story that won't get mainstream coverage. We like things like that, for example: Former Washington D.C. police officer sues district for racial discrimination and harassment was written entirely from PACER documents and has no mainstream coverage. --Brian McNeil / talk 16:35, 24 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Now I am confused, you added an OR tag, but you put nowiki around it. What is the purpose of that? --SVTCobra 02:26, 26 June 2007 (UTC)


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 * Jason wrote most of the Squires story after I dug it out of PACER - I found it completely at random and none of the mainstream press have given the issue the time of day. Glad you liked it, are you a regular reader?

Oh, and to get a link to your page along with the time you left a message put ~ at the end of the message, if you can see the words nowiki around the four tilde characters - you don't put in that bit, you're reading the changes to the page. --Brian McNeil / talk 09:05, 26 June 2007 (UTC)