Talk:Mike Bouchard

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BetacommandBot (talk) 14:31, 2 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Content removed by Mtndo

Mtndo removed content that shouldn't have been removed. Even unflattering content should remain, when it complies with all rules and policies. This is not an auto-biography with the unflattering information left out. One only needs to look at Kwame Kilpatrick's page to see that content is not restricted to flattering content. --Dodge Challenger SRT (talk) 18:31, 21 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Response to Dodge Challenger SRT

Your paragraph gives an absurdly too long description of what is ultimately a minor controversy. It's hardly worth mentioning in a biography stub. I also believe it is misleading as it completely fails to mention that the mental patient in question brutally killed a woman he knew with an ax and shovel, and then was found not guilty by reason of insanity. Mtndo (talk) 22:41, 22 October 2009 (UTC)mtndo —Preceding unsigned comment added by Dodge Challenger SRT (talk • contribs) [reply]

Response to Mtndo

Whether it is minor or not depends on ones point of view. I don't believe that an Officer of the law, in Bouchard's position and standing in the community, making statements to a newspaper that promotes fear of the mentally ill, and incites hateful comments by the readers of said newspaper is minor. I believe a public apology is in order, after he spends some time learning about mental illness and the stigma surrounding it.

The stigma surrounding mental illness is unjust and undeserved, and needs to end. Mr. Bouchard's comments have undone what many are trying to accomplish - ending the stigma. For a couple examples, one only needs to read a very recent article by Glenn Close Mental Illness: The Stigma of Silence as well as BringChange2Mind.org

As far as feeling something was left out, how much should be added? Should Warren Culver's condition in the weeks before the killing be added? Should the fact that he was found not guilty by reason on insanity in a court of law be added? Should it be added that the court has made the decisions concerning his treatment over the past 11 years, as well as allowing him to now live unsupervised, and that he is still under court orders?

Feel free to add what you feel is missing. --Dodge Challenger SRT (talk) 02:43, 24 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Another response to Dodge Challenger

Dodge Challenger is obsessed with this noncontroversy. If this editor could demonstrate someone else offended besides himself and the one person quoted, he/she might have an actual controversy, but he does not. This is not worth putting in a stub, or frankly in any article.

Also, if you look at this editor's other edits, you'll see he/she has added other negative information about another Michigan gubernatorial candidate. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mtndo (talk • contribs) 00:30, 6 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Copyright violations by conflict of interest editor Comment

Reverting unexplained content removal.

User:Tyler at OCSO is edit warring to include gigantic swathes of copyrighted material from http://www.oakgov.com/sheriff/Pages/about/bio_bouchard.aspx Theroadislong (talk) 15:38, 24 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Some of the material appears to be lists of awards, for which there are only so many ways to build the list. It may not be as big an issue as the byte count suggests.

The article needs some serious TLC besides that. The Career section, for instance, has major capitalization and other issues. —C.Fred (talk) 15:58, 24 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

It's not just the Awards section, it's the Education, Activities and Record of Public service all copied and pasted. Theroadislong (talk) 16:03, 24 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

In regards to the copyright concerns, the text has now been released under the creative commons share-alike license, version 3.0. Mike V • Talk 21:37, 26 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Ridiculous unreferenced lists of everything he has ever done Comment

The Education and Awards sections are entirely unreferenced and mostly non notable in their content they do not belong in an encyclopedia article. Theroadislong (talk) 13:46, 30 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Meaning of ribbons and medals on uniform?

On the Oakland County staff page, unlike the other leadership team, shows Bouchard with a chest of ribbons. Are they police and military ribbons? Could someone document what they are? (As done for other military and law enforcement personnel, especially unfamiliar with a country's awards; See London Metropolitan's Cressida Dick, Australia's Katarina Carroll, Toronto's Mark Saunders, and US soldier Colin Powell.) Thanks!–Q8682 (talk) 12:44, 5 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]