Talk:Todd Zywicki

POV tags
BCMcdonald's POV tags need to be dealt with (btw please explain edits here and in edit summary).

"Board Chairman Charles E. Haldeman announced the Board's only formal reprimand[neutrality disputed]." in recent memory. The action was "formal" and a "reprimand." Haldeman: "the Board voted to reprimand Mr. Zywicki." The Dartmouth newspaper called it a "reprimand." Is the POV contained in the word "only"? I propose this tag be removed.

""The Board concluded that [Zywicki] had exercised poor judgment and had violated his responsibilities as a Trustee of Dartmouth College, which include acting in the best overall interests of Dartmouth and representing Dartmouth positively in words and deeds."[neutrality disputed][6][10]" The quotation from Haldeman is a "significant view" that has been "published by reliable sources" and so it supports the core content policy of neutrality. The reliable sources are cited **after** the POV tag. I propose this tag be removed.

"in a resolution it later rescinded unanimously[neutrality disputed],[11]." If the view of the DAA is significant enough to be included neutrally in the beginning of the sentence, then it should be significant enough in the middle part. I propose this tag be removed but am open to removing the entire sentence as irrelevant to the article.

"The Dartmouth College Alumni Council also censured Zywicki for his remarks[neutrality disputed]." This sentence is not accurate and does not cite a source. In its rewritten form, it will not express a POV and the tag will be removed.

Factrenderer (talk) 16:01, 22 August 2009 (UTC)


 * Seeing no response on these requests, and considering the rules applicable to living persons, I have condensed the trusteeship section to remove the irrelevant and tangential material. This is not an article about the board of trustees, and it is not an article about controversies involving the board, and paragraphs about those topics belong elsewhere.  If this article would be improved with a quote from a blogger criticizing an organization that no longer includes the article's subject as a member, then by all means include it and explain why here.  Thx, Factrenderer (talk) 00:33, 15 September 2009 (UTC)

Citations needed
The last part of this article needs some citations and strengthening or removal of non-relevant text, Factrenderer (talk) 14:25, 15 August 2009 (UTC).

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BLP violations
I've removed the edits about the comments Zywicki made about the late James O. Freedman because the sources do not support calling Zywicki's comments controversial. Additionally, the source did not even include the statements that appear to have been taken out of context. In the same vain, I removed duplicate sources that did not support the edits at all. One Alumni newsletter made the claim that the board had reprimanded Zywicki for his criticism of Freedman, but then it gave a source that does not mention Zywicki at all. Since this is a BLP and an extra standard of care must be taken, it is better to remove this than let it stand. Zywicki did receive a reprimand but the letter by the trustee is a primary source. In addition, there is no evidence Zywicki was not reelected to the board because of those statements.

Long before Zywicki got on the board, there was a long simmering controversy over alumni trustees elected by petition. Zywicki was just such a trustee. The board was then and is now top heavy with non-alumni members and it now routinely votes off alumni members after one term, which it is allowed to do since the changes made in 2009. The real controversy is outlined in the source that supports the edit showing Zywicki was not reelected.


 * Todd Zywicki, Speech to Pope Institute, Raleigh, N.C., October 2, 2007 - claim at top of source not supported by source it links to
 * William Schpero, "Board votes to reprimand Zywicki", The Dartmouth (January 7, 2008) - no mention
 * Ed Haldeman, Letter to Members of the Dartmouth Community, December 18, 2007 - Primary source
 * Dartmouth College Office of Public Affairs, Press Release (April 6, 2009) - no mention

SW3 5DL (talk) 17:57, 12 July 2015 (UTC)