Talk:Informant

message: "An informant is a person who provides privileged information about a person or organization to an agency."
 
"...Any citizen who aids an investigation by offering helpful information to the police is by definition an informant.[citation needed]"
I think the police distinguishes between regular sources (or tips), who can be any person reporting in some kind of information (including suspects 'snitching'), and informants, who are sources with an established relation over time with a police officer or organization (paid or unpaid)and who are pro-actively steered (by the police) in direction of specific information. There are of course overlaps, but at least the distinction should be mentioned.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Alenepaagata (talk • contribs) 08:46, 28 April 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Too broad definition 

message: Why is a citation needed to support the obvious fact that informants are ostrasized, beaten, and killed?  It's happens as often and as obviously as when the wind changes direction and ought to be considered common knowledge.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.240.5.10 (talk) 04:20, 13 October 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree. No need for citation there. *removing it* --RubenSibon (talk) 23:23, 6 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Citation needed for what?

message: I removed a bunch of redlinks, which appeared to be teenagers and others playing jokes on their friends by listing their names here.  Any unlikely redlinks found in this list should be removed.  --Xyzzyplugh 14:34, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: famous informants

message: The article should discuss the continuing problem of informants facing jail time who intentionally provide false information in exchange for reduced sentences or even complete immunity. Their are many cases of people wrongfully convicted based on false info from informants. 
--Cab88 14:49, 20 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: False convictions due to informants

message: Are 50 Cent and Jackie Chan really informants?  Their respective articles don't seem to mention that fact.
Iain marcuson 01:51, 5 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Okay, I've removed him and a couple of other bogus names from the list. Wdfarmer 00:50, 4 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Famous Informants

message: I could see the use in adding some content dealing with the social sciences (esp Anthropology) and their use of key and casual informants as a part of the reseach process. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 71.120.38.197 (talk) 01:38, 7 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree completely, although this remark seems to have gone unnoticed since 2007. Does anyone oppose to this change? It might mean that we would have to restructure the article, though, because criminal informant would be 'reduced' to a category of a more general term rather than the only thing it refers to... What do you say? --Jeroenm (talk) 15:27, 19 October 2009 (UTC)

text: From a related discipline I agree, but the changes called for seem to have been implemented in the past seven years. I have made some changes that I believe will be helpful, though; see my comment below, #Other meanings. --Thnidu (talk) 05:26, 6 June 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Anthropological Research and Use of Informants 

message: Defense lawyer rips mob trial witness as 'liar' - 2nd Witness dismissed as Wikipedia hopeful for 'most famous informant' might have relevance to this article. -- Jreferee (Talk) 00:48, 30 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Potential information

message: Merge is great idea.  As this article stands it fails WP:NOT and WP:V and WP:N it is a wonder it has not been deleted yet. Jeepday (talk) 21:51, 16 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I also support the proposed merge.Jlittlet 18:22, 22 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Merge

message: There's rather little here - only the picture & caption, as far as I can tell - on military intelligence informants, despite the link to it from the spotter disambiguation page. Allens (talk) 12:47, 3 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Military intelligence informants? 

message: Very little historical perspective. The informer is a recurrent figure in Irish nationalist/republican movements. See the case of Denis Donaldson to realise that they are still held in widespread contempt, as a kind of homo sacer today.
109.79.232.219 (talk) 06:59, 9 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Historical Perspective and Paramilitary Organisations 

message: Found in Dick Tracy cartoon, by Chester Gould, »Model«, 1/23/52 – 3/27/52. »Do you think my daughter’s a stool pigeon?« : Model’s father to Tracy Junior, as Model will not reveal her brother’s adress. (Junior loves Model,  Model’s brother is a police murderer.) »The Dick Tracy Casebbok«, Selection by Penguin Books and St Martin’s Press, New York, 1990.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Fritz Jörn (talk • contribs) 13:06, 24 February 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Stool Pigeon 

message: Asset (intelligence) .  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.70.126.226 (talk) 02:32, 19 October 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Add '''Asset''' 

message: I would write:
"for the police to overlook their..." 85.193.204.61 (talk) 22:28, 30 November 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  for police to overlook their... 

message: Death Informant:
When a death certificate is issued by an agency, there is usually both a physician or coroner who informs of the facts of the death.  However, the Informant on a death certificate is a likely a family member or close confidant who Informs of the privileged and private information regarding the Parents or next of kin of the deceased.  At times, a funeral director will provide this information to the agency, based upon information previously gathered or by interview from family members.~~Robert I. Miskimen Jr aka Bobthefarmer~~ http://www.archives.com/experts/ortega-gena/anatomy-of-a-death-certificate.html  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bobthefarmer (talk • contribs) 12:46, 20 October 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Death Informant 

message: For much of my career as a linguist I have been troubled by the co-optation of the word informant by government agencies because they felt that the older word "informer" was pejorative and off-putting, which has caused some linguists to refer to their informants as "consultants". Of course, this is merely another case of euphemism creep. [The original article is no longer available online, but it is quoted by the author at this URL, which is part of the main website's blog.]Euphemism Creep in Hebrew. On Language Hat.
So I've changed the hatnote from the vague Other uses, which doesn't specify what meaning the article is about, to  About, which does. 
And since the article also uses the word "informer", twice each in § Criminal informants and Politics, I've added a mention of that synonym in the lede. 
Please  me to discuss. --Thnidu (talk) 05:20, 6 June 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Other meanings 

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