Talk:William Diamond

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Page rewrite[edit]

I'm going to look over the page, expand, check sources, add more recent info. I'll work in my sandbox so please leave suggestions here. Thanks. Light&highbeautyforever (talk) 00:30, 24 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

All done for now. Very interested in additional information about Diamond's tenure at the Élan School. Light&highbeautyforever (talk) 20:49, 12 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Élan School connection[edit]

This page has received some vandalism/biased edits regarding Diamond's position at Élan School. I am still working on a rewrite of the page and have had difficulty finding sourcing for his involvement, although it is certainly something that should be included on the page. A recent editor just added this article (thank you!), which is the first I have seen confirming Diamond's connection. I am struggling to find more information. If you are reading this and considering editing this page with information on Diamond and Élan, or if you know where I might find notable information, please provide sourcing or add to this discussion. Thanks. Light&highbeautyforever (talk) 19:59, 6 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Elan School Consensus[edit]

Helpmechoose999 has recently been making repeated edits to this article that have been reverted by multiple editors, including myself, Light&highbeautyforever, and Chlod. I'd like to start a discussion on those edits and reversion and hopefully come to a written consensus as to what the correct description is for Diamond's involvement in Elan School and its child abuse allegations, to avoid this becoming an edit war. thattransgirl (talk) (she/her) 19:23, 13 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Personally, I believe the current form that is in the article clearly represents Diamond's relationship to the school as well as its scandals without implying he was complicit because we don't have a source that shows he was. I feel that Helpmechoose999's edits have tried to imply that Diamond was complicit in child abuse which I would consider a WP:BLP violation. thattransgirl (talk) (she/her) 19:23, 13 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed; I'm fine with further describing his participation/complacency if we can source it, especially since he wrote a book on child sexual abuse. I've done a lot of looking (see the section above on Élan) and welcome source suggestions in line with WP:RS, WP:BLPSOURCES, WP:UGC. Light&highbeautyforever (talk) 19:53, 13 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

There is I don't think reliable sources critical of or even describing in all that great detail his role at the Elan School. I'm happy with how it's discussed in the second paragraph (though to be fair, of course I am, I wrote the thing), though I now think it's undue as it stands in the lead at present. It makes it sound like Diamond is marred with significant controversy over the school when reliable sources do not seem to attest to that fact. I think I'd support trimming the controversy details out of the lead or just removing the part about the school from the lead all together, the one source we have tying the two together: [1] Reached this week, Ed MacColl, the longtime Elan School lawyer, said he didn’t work for the school in 1982. State Sen. Bill Diamond, Elan’s former superintendent and director of governmental relations, said he didn’t either seems to me not enough to make this WP:DUE at all. I think when I wrote it I expected there to be more sources out there, but there really just isn't. ‑‑Volteer1 (talk) 22:58, 13 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Actually scratch that, I must be blind. Here's another Sun Journal article: [2] a damning report by investigators from New York’s Department of Education in 2007, as well as Curley’s December 2012 interview with former Maine state senator Bill Diamond, who helped Elan renew its Maine’s Department of Education licensing for the past 15 years. There's also the book it's referencing, Duck in a Raincoat, by Maura Curley. I'd be interested to see what the book says though (I don't have access to it...) ‑‑Volteer1 (talk) 23:19, 13 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Oh awesome; just bought it and diving in, thank you! Light&highbeautyforever (talk) 01:48, 14 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]