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Sexual assault allegations -- possible wp:blp adjustment needed re choice of quote
[edit]I'm considering replacing the quote "What people need to understand is that there is a flip side to Matt-the-serial-adulterer persona, and that’s all the women he didn’t hook up with — and they didn’t always fare so well," with the longer quote from the same reference, " '....if he flat-out wasn’t interested in you? Then you might as well have been invisible,' the source adds. 'For the most part, women served no purpose for him unless he was attracted to them. So if he wasn’t hot for you, it was only a matter of time before you’d become more and more marginalized.' "
The quotes come from one source, and in our article the first quote incorrectly could sound like it's a compilation of independent reports, compiled by the People magazine journalist, by a collection of staffers who didn't fare well after receiving and resisting adulterous approaches.
My worry is that as it is, the first quote may violate wp:blp analagous to saying "An anonymous source says that Joe Bloggs is a serial killer for sure."
The more detailed later quote describes behaviour on Lauer's part which, if true, seems a report of equally unfair behaviour. More importantly, something that could have been experienced first-hand by the individual source. And it sounds like a direct quote where the same one source is describing what happened to them specifically.
I'm partly going by intuition about the second quote being believable, but also the first quote neeeds to carry a lot of weight if we really decide to allow it to suggest a series of adulterous attacks followed by revenge. Curious if anyone has any thoughts about replacing one quote with the other. I'm not really committed to either quote in particular. Createangelos (talk) 23:53, 20 November 2019 (UTC)
- Since no-one has replied, I will *not* make this edit, but I am going to correct the singular/plural issue, replacing 'staffers' with 'a staffer.'Createangelos (talk) 23:09, 11 December 2019 (UTC)
- I agree. A direct quote, by definition, comes from a single person. JTRH (talk) 00:00, 12 December 2019 (UTC)
- @ 2603:6010:C100:4938:4882:39F4:BFBB:3E22 (talk) 23:43, 24 August 2025 (UTC)
Lock
[edit]Did he have a lock on his office door that he could control from his desk? MasNuisance (talk) 03:02, 19 November 2025 (UTC)
Possible book for references
[edit]Greetings and felicitations. This just came out:
- Nevils, Brooke (2026). Unspeakable Things: Silence, Shame, and the Stories We Choose to Believe (First hardcover ed.). New York: Viking. ISBN 978-1984880185. OCLC 1570380653.