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Legal Investigation

As mentioned on the Biographies of living persons/Noticeboard, recent edits of a defamatory and libelous nature from poorly sourced and inaccurate news reports regarding Rev. Rossi are being investigated for potential legal action. We are gathering any information that would be helpful as to the identity of those conspiring to stalk Rev. Rossi and further false allegations on wikipedia and elsewhere about him and his wife. These stories have been previously disproven in Rev. Rossi's previous legal victories against those defaming him and his family, and those writing edits here may be potentially attached to those judgments. Any and all information leading to the identification of parties involved is most appreciated.

The numerous problems with this article

Somebody really needs to investigate editors who obviously have a history of slanderous posts of a defamatory nature. In this case, there are a handful of posters who spend their days looking for negative reports from newspapers not known for journalistic integrity and accuracy to add a negative slant against Rev. Rossi. Rev. Rossi has won financial damages in court for some of the same false allegations propagated here, and Misplaced Pages needs to diligently investigate those engaging in libelous additions to this article for possible legal action.

My main problem with this article is that it is clearly continuously sabatoged by those who have an obsession with stalking and gossiping about Richard Rossi. Frankly, I don't know whether they write about anything else.

After investigating the background of such posters, what is readily apparent is: 1) they have nothing to do but write against Rev. Rossi 2) they continue to propagate bizarre stories about the demon doppelganger, and 3) that they clearly exaggerated anything negative

Most of the publications listed in this sub-section with defamatory pieces are not major news publications, many appear to be little more than small community newspapers or newsletters, and except for the in-text references I put in (see below), there are no reference links to sources on the web.

Addendum to the note above

I have also had to revert a number of commerical links inserted into this article, the latest inserted by 4.232.132.150.

Commerical links are not appropriate for Misplaced Pages articles. Misplaced Pages is not a place to advertise items or services for sale, nor is it a place to ask for donations.

Furthermore, 4.232.132.150 has also replaced many of the "citation needed" tags with links to web articles that have little or no relevance to the unsourced statement it is supposed to support.

4.167.239.41 19:36, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

Addendum to the note above

I have had to restore a relevant category "Music of Pittsburgh" to both Richard Rossi's entry and his late father, because the music they wrote and performed was often thematic with lyrical references to the experience of growing up and living in Pittsburgh.

Addendum to the note above

Rossi should be removed from the spurious category "People with bi-polar disorder." Although there are articles mentioning his father's manic-depression, there are no supporting articles that he is also diagnosed with same.

Need for Balance

Though some insist that previous edits regarding Rossi were unduly slanted against him "by referencing inaccurate sources," each detail has been supported by published newspaper accounts. Public records of the Butler County courthouse indicate Rossi (1)always maintained his innocence, and was cleared by the overwhelming evidence for his inncoence, (2)was tried for the crime but vindicated (3) was never convicted, but agreed to a plea bargain to spare his family the emotional and legal costs and (4) was "cleared" by physical evidence and eyewitness testimony, tested in a court of law. The doppelganger story was created by Ann rodgers Melnick, a Pittsburgh Post Gazette reporter, and was later pegged with this "doppelganger" word by the Pittsburgh Post Gazette Tony Norman in a column known for inaccuracies and satire and picked up by others. Richard Rossi served time, but weas later cleared from all accusations.

Beware of Tabloid Editors

There has been a recent rash of edits on this article with an obvious obsession with defaming Rev. Rossi. It is apparent when a new poster emerges overnight to flood wikipedia with a flurry of slanderous additions to the article and the said posters history on the Internet is exclusively of a defamatory nature exclusively dealing with articles on Rev. Rossi and nothing else.

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