Talk:Christopher Massimine

Hi there, Glenroy20. You've reverted my change a couple of times, in order to surpress the negative story. The Fox 13 story is clearly reliable, and your edit summary characterising it as "instigated by disgruntled employee" is not supported in either source. Your point that the Salt Lake Tribune and Fox 13 are related does not inherently make this less reliable. What I find slightly more concerning, however, is the fact that your account seems to have been created with the sole purpose of removing this information. Just a reminder that if you have a personal connection to this person (and especially if you are this person), then WP:COI, the conflict-of-interest policy suggests that you should wait to establish consensus, and then allow someone else to make the edit. Do you have a personal connection to the subject of the article? BobEret (he/him) (talk) 18:15, 6 June 2021 (UTC)

Thank you. I didn’t see this when I wrote my paragraph below, but I concur 100%. Stallion Cornell (talk) 18:24, 6 June 2021 (UTC)

Continuing to remove the multiple fraud allegations against Massimine constitutes vandalism. It is indisputable that Massimine is currently on leave, that the University of Utah is investigating the allegations, that many of Massimine’s supposed clients and employers deny he has done any work for them, and that the “NPAA” which supposedly gave him an award does not exist. Simply removing this factual information, which is reported and confirmed by credible outlets, is not acceptable. Please stop. Stallion Cornell (talk) 18:19, 6 June 2021 (UTC)

The news story reported by Fox13 clearly states they have not confirmed the vast majority of the resume items reported on. Posting this story as a credible source only serves to validate misinformation and cause damage to the subject, Christopher Massimine. I suggest we allow the University of Utah and associated parties to conclude their investigation before you post this malicious content which is causing additional harm to this individual. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Glenroy20 (talk • contribs) 18:26, 6 June 2021 (UTC)

The edits to the article that you keep reversing have only noted those things which are, in fact, both confirmed and credible. For example, you keep removing references to the fact that Massimine is on leave and that the University is investigating. Those are facts not in dispute. Your reversals of legitimate edits seem designed to pretend that the allegations don’t exist. That’s vandalism and unacceptable. Stallion Cornell (talk) 19:06, 6 June 2021 (UTC)

Glenroy20 That's not an accurate description of the article. Although the Fox story suggests that some of his items were difficult to prove as false (which does not automatically make them true), it has a significant list of proven falsifications:

1. "It took approximately five minutes for FOX 13 to call NYU and confirm Massimine did not receive a master’s degree."
2. "In some of the congratulatory photos, Massimine is seen wearing a small medal with a purple ribbon around his neck. FOX 13 quickly learned the same medal can be purchased online for $4.25."
3. "A search on the Federal Election Commission (FEC) website confirms the NPAAA is either unregistered or does not exist."
4. "A spokesperson for Wieden+Kennedy, the actual advertising agency in charge of producing Old Spice commercials, confirmed Massimine never worked on those ads. “That individual has not worked for us,” the spokesperson wrote."
5. "“He is not a member and was not ever a member,” wrote spokesperson Alexandra Anderson in an email to FOX 13. “He was not inducted into the PGA Hall of Fame.”"

This is a sufficiently long list of allegations that are confirmed to warrant inclusion in the article - it is not sensationalist or tabloid in tone. If the investigations do turn out to be false (which seems unlikely; however, obviously it isn't the place of Wikipedia editors to predict), then this investigation ihmo will still be notable, and should remain either way. Remember to sign your posts with four ~ characters. BobEret (he/him) (talk) 19:08, 6 June 2021 (UTC)

I think there is probably some information from the recent reports that would be relevant to include, but it is hard to tell given the state of the article. I tried to clean up the lead a little, but the whole article is still a mess. A lot of the content probably needs to just be removed, including the promotional material sourced solely to the article subject rather than having the back and forth about what is "claimed" (WP:BLPSELFPUB says that the article subject should not be used for material that is "unduly self-serving"). The content that is sourced to articles that do not mention the subject should also be removed. If independent reliable sources haven't mentioned certain aspects of their career or directly made the connections/inferences, then we shouldn't be either and the content should just be removed from the article until there is better sourcing available. – wallyfromdilbert (talk) 23:44, 7 June 2021 (UTC)

Checked google/bing, newspapers.com, proquest, jstor, and google books. Nothing exists in a search for "National Performing Arts Action Association" except the single press release, dutifully and identically hosted on a few sites. A search on just "NPAAA" finds the Negro Political Action Association of Arizona, the Northeastern Pennsylvania Association of Arab Americans, non-proteinogenic amino acid, and something to do with kids' sports (it's never spelled out). I think the whole mention of the alleged association and its award should be removed, not just disputed in the article. Schazjmd (talk) 00:18, 8 June 2021 (UTC)

I just went through the article to clean it up, and I removed the disputed material and a lot of the other poorly sourced content. I don't know what else would be appropriate to include, but I did include the recent news reports in relation to his current job at the University of Utah as that seems relevant. Hopefully at least the article will be more manageable now. – wallyfromdilbert (talk) 00:39, 8 June 2021 (UTC)

Fact: American Idiot was nominated for a Tony in 2010. Disputed fact: Massimine was an associate producer on the show. Can anyone verify whether Massimine had any credited association with this show? The citation he included for himself^[1] is a link to a website that allows self-publishing, which means anyone can give themselves credit for any project they want.^[2] I cannot find any other mention of Massimine having any association with that show, other than articles that have propagated from this self-published source, or from puff-pieces where Massimine himself is perpetuating the claim. His name is not found anywhere in the 2010 playbill for the show ^[3] and he's not listed anywhere in on IBDB^[4]. He's also not listed among the producers on the Tony website ^[5]. If Massimine is lying about his Tony nomination, we should not perpetuate this false information on Wikipedia. Unless this can be verified from a source independent of Massimine's self-published work, I propose that any mention of his Tony nomination be removed. Sophistrate (talk) 22:31, 6 June 2021 (UTC)