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Something that strikes one immediately when checking the sources of this article is that those are all news/magazine articleswith claims made by Poumpouras herself. Anyone can claim to be or having been a secret agent. Are there any public records that document her having been employed by the FBI? If not, then this fact should be specifically mentioned in the article. 80.187.66.29 (talk) 04:53, 2 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I have reverted the changes made in the article by 35.140.144.82 as he/she seems to think Wikipedia is a self-promo platform instead of an objective encyclopedia. Just to further clarify: I have included the template "better sources needed" because literally all of the sources given are either interview pieces (conflict of interest) or simply a news/magazine article using Poumpouras's own autobiographical book as a source. These are questionable sources. There is not a single source from the government or any confirmation that this woman actually worked as a special agent, was one of the 9/11 first responders, etc. If she actually won USSS Valor Award then her name would be searchable in association with that award...which is not the case. This makes her claims, aside from her journalistic work for which there is of course evidence, very questionable to put it lightly. Please do more due diligence guys. This is not a platform for people to promote themselves... 80.187.66.38 (talk) 15:36, 12 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I've removed elements added to the intro that imply she is lying about her background in the USSS. There are no sources to support conjecture that she is lying, and wording like this is highly inappropriate for a biography of a living person. See WP:BLP. --Hammersoft (talk) 12:48, 13 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
You want me to find sources for the fact that there are no sources for her claims that she supposedly worked as an agent for the USSS including her Valor Award??? This is ridiculous. Anyone can see that there is nothing outside of her own autobiographical book and tabloid papers (all sources that count as questionable and yet the ENTIRE article is littered with it) which proves her claim, which in turn makes this self-evident.
If I write a book claiming to have worked as a contract killer, then appear on numerous YT videos and tabloid papers being interviewed about my own claims, with nothing to back up those claims, and just happen to achieve enough notability to have a wiki article about me, are you going to demand from someone who notes that there are no outside sources, to give evidence of there being no evidence? That's preposterous.
Hammersoft is claiming that the nature of the changes I have made are accusatory. How is it an accusation when people are being made aware of the fact that this person is not mentioned AT ALL anywhere outside from her own hugely biased memoir and tabloid papers who take Poumpouras' own statements in the books as a source? This is all the more serious when someone claims to have been granted a USSS Valor Award for being a 9/11 first responder without dhs.gov actually listing that person as such (I am actually currently in talks with dhs to find out if she actually received such an award, because if not, then this woman is not only adorning herself with borrowed plumes for self-aggrandization but also violating law), so no, your claim that it is accusatory is not true. In order for something to be an accusation justifying reversion it must not only be libelous but also a distortion of verifiable, objective truth. So far I have simply stated, in an unemotional tone, the VERIFIABLE truth that there is literally no source, government or otherwise (interviews taking the subject's own statements as fact/source don't count as a source), that actually proves her claim of having been a so called "special agent". This is a much more serious matter than just an article requiring a better source. The wiki article is uncritically adopting claims from Poumpouras that haven't been verified at all. So far we just have a journalist and author with sufficient notability CLAIMING to have been a special agent, no more no less. Wikipedia is not supposed to be an instrument aiding people in self-aggrandizement. So much for accusation. TRVTHSERVM (talk) 16:53, 13 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
"Supposedly"? That's an accusation. Yes, interviews should be regarded as primary sources. But when multiple independent sources such as the Chicago Tribune and MSNBC concur she is a former special agent, then we go with what those sources say. Plenty of journalists find cases where people are lying about their backgrounds. So, if she is lying about her background, go and find the sources to support it. Otherwise, it isn't going to be added into the article, whether stated or inferred. I'm not going to go around in circles about this. Find the supporting sources or it doesn't happen. --Hammersoft (talk) 17:26, 13 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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