Talk:Murder of Suzanne Jovin

message: This article was completely rewritten on January 4, 2008 and fully sourced to detail the current facts and status of the case. 
*Cleanup? I'm sorry, but a lot of this needed to be reverted.  Biased rhetoric, awkwardly written in places, rambling, LOTS of irrelevant details that add nothing to the article (or are totally inappropriate, like the reference to the Duke case), and above all, an entire section of wild theories/pontificating does NOT belong on Wikipedia, especially without citations. CagedRage (talk) 03:28, 18 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cleanup 

message: Members of the JREF Forum http://forums.randi.org/showthread.php?postid=2265877#post2265877 are trying to delete the fact that subject of Jovin's thesis was Osama bin Laden.  This fact is well-documented and is central to the case. Van de Velde's area of expertise is Al Qaida.  Their personal political biases about "conspiracy theorists" have no place in this encyclopedia.  *Murder Most Yale: The Postscript – Vanity Fair January, 2006 	 
	*Suzanne Jovin must not be forgotten The Yale Herald December 2, 2002
: No one in the JREF forum is trying to remove the fact all together. We're trying to keep it neutral from Conspiracy Theorists who are claiming that Suzanne was murdered by a government agent to "cover up 9/11".  This is due to the fact that "Killtown" posted an extremely inaccurate blog entry with no sources and is now trying to edit the wikipedia entry to go along with his article. Wikipedia is neutral - we're trying to keep it that way.
:: I have removed the Osama Bin Ladin section (it hardly requires it's own section) and move the information about her thesis topic to a more relevant section of the document. 
I'm a little worried about the neutrality of this article.  Is it too strident in defending Van de Velde? SkipSmith 22:53, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: How would that be possible? There is no evidence at all against Van de Velde. - Nunh-huh 00:27, 30 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Wikipedia articles should be neutral in their point of view.  See WP:NPOV.  This article should just report the facts rather than read as an empassioned essay written by one of Van de Velde's friends.  For example, calling a report "false" rather than "utterly false" is a more neutral approach. SkipSmith 03:07, 31 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: When something is completely baseless, and you report it as anything other than utterly false, you risk defaming the living by libeling them. - Nunh-huh 03:33, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

text: We could include a section: Evidence against Van de Velde and leave it blank. Gzuckier 16:38, 30 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Or we could strive for a neutral point of view in the article. SkipSmith 03:07, 31 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: We should strive for accuracy: that means not overemphasizing accusations just because they are "another side" when they are baseless. - Nunh-huh 03:33, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

text: Specific issues are always better than "worries about neutrality". If you think the removal of "utterly" improves the article, remove it.  But please read the article more carefully, because there's no speculation, baseless or otherwise, that "the media disliked Van de Velde because he was popular with the students". - Nunh-huh 21:07, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

text: "the baseless speculation that the media disliked Van de Velde because he was popular with the students" ??? Are we reading the same article? Gzuckier 16:08, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

text: Please see Wikipedia:Biographies_of_living_persons. Unsourced or poorly sourced negative material relating to living persons is inappropriate in Wikipedia articles. - Nunh-huh 06:45, 5 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree we'd need to be careful with not posting anything defamatory.  However, I think we do need to balance this article out a bit --- right now it reads like the media and police just picked Van de Velde at random and decided to persecute him for fun or because he was different in some way.  There's a bit more to their case than that, and it would be appropriate to mention it and remove some of the more blatant editorializing and speculation in the article. SkipSmith 21:21, 5 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Neutral point of view 

message: Vandals from the JREF Forum are attempting to delete the topic of Jovin's thesis: Osama bin Laden.  This is sourced in multiple articles and is clearly a key element of the case.
:::Your suggested unreferenced "many people think Van de Velde is a stalker" is pretty defamatory. And what "more" do you find in the police's so-called "case"? - Nunh-huh 21:35, 5 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: If you think that telling me that "knowing someone" is a case, you are indeed wasting your time rather than "explaining" anything to me.  Why not make a serious suggestion rather than a joke? - Nunh-huh 19:50, 6 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: You seem to get more strident and hostile each time I talk to you, which is doing little to convince me that you're interested in working with me to create an unbiased article.  In reading your user talk page it appears you like to pick fights, so I'll take another approach.  I've flagged the article for WP:NPOV to try to get some other perspectives on this.  SkipSmith 23:51, 6 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I'd seen your tag before I wrote my last message here. If you think tagging accomplishes something, by all means do so. Please keep your personal attacks to a minimum. - Nunh-huh 00:42, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: "I'd seen your tag before I wrote my last message here."  Congratulations!  "If you think tagging accomplishes something, by all means do so."  Thanks, I will!  "Please keep your personal attacks to a minimum."  Sarcastic belittler of other people's "ideas" and a victim of harassment!  Wow!  SkipSmith 18:40, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: What part of keeping your personal attacks to a minimum is it that you disagree with? - Nunh-huh 18:48, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Pot, meet kettle.  SkipSmith 23:49, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: As far as I can remember, I've never personally attacked you. I've never speculated that your motivations are insincere or that you are uninterested in article quality.  Not all pots are black, it appears. - Nunh-huh 00:13, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: September 6: If you think that telling me that "knowing someone" is a case, you are indeed wasting your time rather than "explaining" anything to me.  Why not make a serious suggestion rather than a joke?  September 8: I've never speculated that your motivations are insincere or that you are uninterested in article quality.  Wow.  Just, wow.  SkipSmith 19:21, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  You need to look up what a "personal attack" is. You haven't listed any. - Nunh-huh 19:25, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Kettle, meet pot. SkipSmith 19:56, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  You need to look up what a "personal attack" is.- Nunh-huh 20:40, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: OK, this was fun for a while, but now I'm bored, so I'm going to move on.  Sorry --- I know you enjoy this kind of thing, but I've got better things to do.  SkipSmith 00:33, 9 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Buh bye. - Nunh-huh 06:04, 9 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Farewell.  We'll miss your mature contributions to this discussion.  SkipSmith 19:02, 9 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Another section 

message: Well, this is the problem; the missing fact in the case, i.e. that Yale and New Haven were still suffering under the depiction of New Haven as a town where students were likely to be randomly murdered by strangers on the street, due to students having been randomly murdered by strangers on the street in previous years, and were jumping at the chance to portray the crime as some kind of crime of passion which would not result in the drop in enrollment which had followed the previous random murders, is what explains it, rather than any suspicious behavior of Van de Velde. I had this with a source, but of course it got deleted because it was a strong accusation and the source was not the most reliable, so now in the name of fair and balanced we have to beef up the accusations of  Van de Velde instead. It's a wiki wiki world. Gzuckier 22:14, 6 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The desire to keep negative publicity about New Haven out of the news is a possible motive, but it is speculation.  Maybe it could be mentioned as something that Van de Velde's supporters believe?  SkipSmith 23:51, 6 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Are you against speculating in articles, or for it? You keep suggesting that we do it. How is one type of speculation better than another? Without sources, speculation doesn't belong. The police suspected someone, couldn't find any evidence to back up that suggestion, and moved on. Where's the mystery? - Nunh-huh 00:42, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm against speculation, and I'm glad to see you are too.  That means we'll need to rewrite significant portions of the article, as I've already pointed out.  My suggestion to Gzuckier was that his speculation might be mentioned as a possible motive attributed to the police or Yale by Van de Velde's supporters. SkipSmith 18:40, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

text: Uh, I see where the part I put in about Yale & New Haven trying to whitewash isn't deleted, I just lost track of where I put it with the citation. D'oh!  I'll try to relocate it so it makes more sense, logic flow wise, without being too biased. Gzuckier 14:15, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Possible police motive 

message: Does anyone have access to the 20/20 show transcript where they covered this case?  I think it costs money online, and it might be worth springing for at some point, but if someone has a version available it would be a great resource for this article. SkipSmith 00:36, 9 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Other sources to seek out 

message: I removed the Theories section, as it was almost entirely original research.  More cleanup is needed on the rest of the article. Superm401 - Talk 22:43, 26 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Original research 

message: I converted the citations from the disfavored in-line format to footnotes per Wiki policy.  After giving this over an hour, it's still not done.  The Wikipedian who inserted the citations did not insert titles, authors, or dates, nor did they consolidate multiple references to a single source by using the 
:blah-blah-blah 
for the first use of a source, followed by 
: (note the slash which takes the place of the closing REF tag!)
with no need to retype the URL, title, etc. for subsequent references to the same source.  I left enough examples so they can pick up where time forced me to stop.  Titles need to be introduced where I just the end of the URL (in order to temporarily identify repeated sources until someone has time to put in titles, authors, and dates). The article still has POV problems and overheated language. — LisaSmall T/C 05:32, 5 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cleanup citations 

message: This 1998 murder case may be of local interest, but I am not sure it qualifies as an encyclopedic subject and could be a candidate for WP:DELETE, particularly as it gives ongoing unfavorable publicity to a person who has not been charged, see WP:BLP.  There are also notability problems, and the article runs afoul of WP:ONEEVENT and WP:NTEMP as well.  Agree? Disagree? — LisaSmall T/C 05:32, 5 June 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Many years later.  But, I definitely disagree.   Joseph A. Spadaro (talk) 18:37, 21 November 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Notability 

message: "She was reportedly last seen alive at between 9:25-9:30pm..."
"At 9:55, a passerby dialed 911 to report a woman bleeding at the corner of Edgehill Rd and East Rock Rd, a posh neighborhood 1.9 miles from the Yale campus where Jovin was last seen alive..."
"it was virtually impossible for her to have reached the intersection of Edgehill and East Rock Roads by foot in the short span of time that elapsed between when she was last seen alive and when she was found bleeding by witnesses..."
1.9 miles in 25 minutes implies a walking speed of 5 miles an hour, which is 2 miles per hour faster than the average walking speed but by no means "impossible".  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.35.179.230 (talk) 21:26, 17 October 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, as you quoted, the statement said "virtually impossible" ... not "impossible".  Also, I believe that the theory is that Jovin was in a vehicle while traveling those 1.9 miles, not that she walked that distance on foot.   Joseph A. Spadaro (talk) 18:40, 21 November 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nearly impossible? 

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