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 == Thanks for your help with an article - A question == 

 I noticed you helped with the re-writes on the Chuck Philips article - problems raised on the OR board. Thanks. During the re-write of the Chuck Philips article some original sources were taken out, which is fine with me. I was just wondering if perhaps we could add back a couple paragraphs. If not I believe that a false impression is created that most of  the work he did has a retraction associated with it which is not the case. In fact, his 2002 Tupac investigation is still arguably the best and earliest source on the death of Tupac Shakur. The citations below are quite relevant in this regard. Is it possible to re-add this? 

  
 ==Rap crime investigation== 

 Philips is known for his quest to solve the murders and attacks on black rappers Tupac Shakur and Biggie Smalls. An early reporter and interviewer of Tupac Philips was a fan. ""Philips produced some of the most important research into the crimes against Tupac and Biggie,"" said Tony Ortega, editor of the Village Voice. Rap fans, the Huffington Post noted, would be well advised to look into Philips' research as ""he has been investigating Tupac's murder for quite some time now."" 

 ===The murder of Biggie=== 

 In 2000, Philips began a campaign for the Los Angeles Times to retract an erroneous story the paper ran about the murder of the notorious B.I.G. The Metro section of the Los Angeles Times wrote that police suspected a connection between the Notorious B.I.G's death and the Rampart Division police-corruption scandal, a popular theory at the time based the writings of Russell Poole and Randall Sullivan. The Los Angeles Times Metro section ran a photo of Amir Muhammad, identified by police as a mortgage broker unconnected to the murder who appeared to match details of the shooter, and the paper printed his name and driver's license. Philips worked for the Business section of the Los Angeles Times had been following the Wallace investigation but had not heard of the Rampart-Muhammad theory. He searched for Muhammad whom the Metro reporters could not find. It took Philips only three days. Muhammad came forward to clear his name. The Metro section of the paper was opposed to running a retraction. But the business desk editor Mark Saylor said ""Chuck is sort of the world's authority on rap violence,"" and pushed, along with Philips, for the paper to run retract of the article The Los Angeles Times correction article was written by Philips, who quoted Muhammad as saying ""I'm a mortgage broker, not a murderer,"" and asking, ""How can something so completely false end up on the front page of a major newspaper?"" The story cleared Muhammad's name. 

 Another key source for Poole's theory was Kevin Hackie who later revealed to Chuck Philips that he suffered memory lapses due to psychiatric medications. He had previously testified to knowledge of involvement between Suge Knight, David Mack, and Amir Muhammed but later said that the Wallace attorneys had al