Talk:Bill Rasmussen

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Actually, his career started at WDEW in Westfield, MA., not WTTT in Amherst. While at WDEW, Bill Rassumessen did play-by-play of the Westfield High School basketball games. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.110.179.16 (talk) 19:24, 6 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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This is something of a hit piece, with unsourced negative claims. For example:

I removed a section entitled "Promotional press". There was no explanation why - or by whom - the press was considered promotional.
"From the onset ESPN was plagued with ego troubles and disputes, whereby numerous individuals should have been acknowledged as founders, yet William “Bill” Rasmussen demanded the spotlight." - not supported by the given source. While the source says that there are others who say they should be acknowledged as founders (the source does not endorse them), it does not mention either ego troubles or Rasmussn's demand for the spotlight.
Quite a bit of the article is based on http://therasmussenretort.blogspot.com/ That is not a reliable source. It may summarize (or possibly quotemine?) reliable sources, but it is not itself reliable.
The entire "Business failures" section seems highly problematic. "Attitude Network shuttered when funding was depleted and Happy Puppy distanced themselves from Rasmussen a short year after his engagement" - not in the sources. "By August 2008 the company had already burned through the monies invested" - not in the sources. "With $5.5 million used the only asset shown by the time the company was shuttered was a web site" - not in the sources. "amid discrepancies over use of funds and running the company" - not in the sources. "Rasmussen along with his partner, notorious career con artist and hedge fund swindler David M. Mobley Sr." - no reliable third-party sources. Even the section heading is... problematic.

I'm pretty sure I could go on. When the sources I can check by and large don't say what they're cited for, when the tone is loaded ("...a mere 1 year and 4 days after incorporation and 1 month and 20 days before launch lead investors and key executives were already pushing Rasmussen out"), I really wonder what the sources I cannot access actually say. I see no reason to believe those confirm the claims they're cited for any better than the others do. Huon (talk) 01:21, 15 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

seems this file is being edited by the person of topic[edit]

Reviewing the edits made to this file, seems the people editing both anonymous and lcd consulting are in fact Mr. Rasmussen's spouse. What seems to keep being edited out are the well know public newspapers and citations of his legal issues and fraud charges. looking over the original citations, seems all are legit and can be found. Note on the rasmussen report, see note says not credible but yet the rasmussen report is here on wiki, so seems like vandalism and such. May need to look at who is editing, seems they are editing to keep legal woes and troubles out of the profile. All citations seem to be real and quotes can be found. Researchandwriter (talk) 01:29, 29 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

The article is a mess, with all kinds of inappropriate changes. We shouldn't need to explain why something like "The Naples Daily News, printed hundreds of false and misleading articles..." is unacceptable without an iron-clad reliable source stating that all those articles indeed were false and misleading. Those out to smear Rasmussen and those out to promote him have changed and re-changed the article so badly that in the process context, consistency and readability have gotten lost. I'll revert major parts of those changes to an earlier version, but even more reverting or rewriting based on what reliable third-party sources say about Rasmussen might be necessary until we arrive something decent. Huon (talk) 23:28, 14 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]