Talk:The Whistleblower

Photo of director
Photo of directory Larysa Kondracki, if anyone has a use for it. - Jmabel &#124; Talk 16:36, 30 May 2011 (UTC)
 * This is a little late, but thank you! --1ST7 (talk) 02:56, 4 October 2013 (UTC)

POV?
In copyediting this article, I'm concerned about the film's (unstated) neutrality. The UN and Kosovo Force (a NATO initiative under UN mandate, for whom DynCorp recruited U.S. forces) seem to be conflated, and the foreignpolicy.com source extensively cited is a blog. If the film has an anti-UN bias (I haven't seen it), I think this should be mentioned in an article about it.  Mini  apolis  15:22, 26 December 2013 (UTC)


 * The Foreign Policy reference is acceptable. Just because it says "blog" does not mean it is invalid. See the second paragraph of WP:UGC. Erik (talk &#124; contribs) 15:46, 26 December 2013 (UTC)
 * I'm not sure it meets WP:RS; the UN-is-bad rhetoric has a familiar ring, and if the film's producers chose to transfer blame from NATO (where it properly belongs, since the UN had withdrawn its own peacekeepers years earlier) to the UN for the sake of the U.S. market, the film is true enough to recognizable events that this should be noted in the article. In any case, that's for the FA reviewers to sort out. All the best,  Mini  apolis  16:11, 26 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Thank you very much for the copyedit. I personally think that source is all right (the Foreign Policy article describes it as a magazine, not a blog, and there didn't seem to be an issue during the GA review). The film is accurate in that it was the UN that was involved in this incident in the 1990s (not NATO). See here. However, I don't think the film is particularly anti-UN. It opposes immunity and urges accountability, but it doesn't paint the UN in a negative light overall.
 * Again, thank you very much for taking the time to copyedit the article. I appreciate it. --1ST7 (talk) 23:38, 26 December 2013 (UTC)
 * My pleasure; the subject is interesting, and I'll finish the copyedit tomorrow. Good luck with FA and all the best,  Mini  apolis  01:20, 27 December 2013 (UTC)

Misidentified photo
Shockingly, File:Christina Piovesan at the Genie Awards on March 8, 2012.jpg is a picture of Christina Piovesan, not Kathryn Bolkovac, despite - up until ten minutes ago - being falsely used as a picture of her widely - despite very clearly saying who it is in the filename. How did this not get caught at FAC? Adam Cuerden (talk) 02:08, 26 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Up until about a week ago the photo was labelled as "Kathryn Bolkovac at the Genie Awards on March 8, 2012". --1ST7 (talk) 16:35, 26 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Ah, that makes more sense, then. Mind ye, the photo might still be good for the article - Piovesan is, after all, still connected with the movie. (Also, the original ( https://www.flickr.com/photos/alan-langford/6822697154/in/set-72157629186948068 ) has a better picture of Larysa Kondracki than the ope in the article). I presume that the right to release the image isn't in doubt?  Adam Cuerden (talk) 17:09, 26 July 2014 (UTC)

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Error in 2nd to last paragraph of plot
The sentence calls the company DynCorp instead of Democra Security, which is the name of the company in the film. A simple replacement should suffice 192.223.236.130 (talk) 18:53, 29 February 2024 (UTC)