Delirium wrote:
Guy Chapman aka JzG wrote:
And where an external source (in this case Bear's Guide) says that two institutions are run by the same people out of the same address, and no known sources say otherwise, but the subject insists they are different, how do we go about validating that? It's all very well for them to say they are different, but surely that gets {{fact}}?
One way of at least limiting damage to our accuracy and credibility is to explicitly mark such pages as being incomplete due to legal threats. If Pacific Western University's lawyers prohibit us from writing the sort of complete, neutral, verifiable article that we otherwise would have done, then we have a duty to warn our readers of that fact before they read our article.
Legal threats alone should not be the basis for any permanent resolution of problems in an article. Temporarily removing material while the facts are being checked is one thing, but once the facts are established it is dangerous to be intimidated by some lawyer purporting to prohibit the inclusion of valid information. There is a point where letting them sue is the proper strategy.
As to whether the California and Hawaii operations are related, a check of official records should provide the names of the directors for both schools. That, more than anything else will serve to establish whether they are operating at arm's length. That would be stronger evidence than anything the institutions of "Bears' Guide" could give.
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