Talk:Nicholas Ribic

Acquittal
Can anyone find a decent cite for the verdict in the second trial? As I understand it, he was aquitted of kidnapping but convicted of detainment. The only relevant link I can find is some University of Buffalo email or BBS posting. CBC.ca had an article in its archives but I can't get to it. Tks. -- Sig Pig  |SEND - OVER 18:02, 9 April 2007 (UTC)
 * I have found newspaper articles that say he was convicted. To me, convicted means that no mistrial was declared, nor that there was aquittal. I do not know much about the aquittal process though, can someone be acquitted after they are convicted or only before? Is 'detainment' the same as kidnapping as the newspapers say? Tyciol (talk) 23:39, 3 July 2008 (UTC)

NPOV resolution
User:Themightyquill has tagged this article with a relevant objection "canada's version of lindh?" more than a year ago. User:Smackbot for some reason labeled it as December 2007, despite it being posted in June 2007. This is in reference to latter part of the introductory sentence:
 * "is sometimes described as a traitor, Canada's version of John Walker Lindh".

This was part of the original article which was created by IP User:209.105.200.88. While the subsequent editions by pseudonym Wikipedians have been properly sourced, I do notice that this original submission was not. I am not sure if this editor has continued to edit Wikipedia under a proper name, I have left a message in hopes that they might notice and confirm this. Since it was not properly sourced, we do not have a source for the statement 'described as a traitor'. Similarly, we have no source for him being compared to John Walker Lindh. Due to the lack of sourced, and no one stating this in particular, nor being able to check the source of the original poster, I am deleting that latter part of the introductory sentence. If anyone objects to this, please post a source of that label and that comparison. I am also removing the NPOV tag since this was the only objection that themightyquill described in regards to the article's neutrality. My guess is that he did not want to remove it himself, but wait for a second editor to second his objection. I am, and am being bold in taking the initiative to remove it. I will contact quill to see if they're okay with the removal of the tag or if they want to add it back in regards to other NPOV objections. Tyciol (talk) 23:39, 3 July 2008 (UTC)