Talk:Fork Union Military Academy

Please cease removing the scandal section

The charges against Moyer and his subsequent flight and arrest are an important part of FUMA's recent history, and certainly constitute relevant information. Please cease erasing this information and describing it as "correcting vandalism"```` —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 68.110.224.154 (talk) 04:59, 9 January 2007 (UTC).

Please cease adding allegations unfounded by the source you cite

An anonymous poster keeps adding a section to this article with the bold section title "Scandal" and allegations that cite as its source a web page on America's Most Wanted web site that does not even support all of the specific allegations placed in this vandalizing entry nor does it even name Fork Union Military Academy anywhere on the web page.

I am Dan Thompson, Director of Communications for Fork Union Military Academy. CaptDan FUMA 16:14, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

It is true that inclusion of this information is not supported by the source, America's Most Wanted.[1] The substance of the item is supported but there is no mention of the school. AMW only says (click "case"):

In 1994, Gregory Allen Moyer was working as a teacher at private in Virginia

(not specifying what the "private" is).

However, it is clear from a google search that it is a private school, namely Fork Union Military Academy.[2] The google results include the Court of Appeals of Virginia.[3] This case concerning Gregory Allen Moyer states that the

Appellant was an eighth grade science teacher at Fork Union Military Academy (the Academy) in Fluvanna County ... In 1997, Academy officials advised local and state police that appellant may have abused one or more of the Academy's students.

Details are in the Virginia Pilot, University Libraries, Virginia Tech,[4], as well as WHSV news,[5]Daily Progress (reprint),[6] WTJU[7] and The Hook.[8][9]

This information has been added and removed twice and this is likely to occur again. Please note that an edit should not be called vandalism, unless it is clearly the intent is to disrupt wikipedia. However much you may disagree with the edit, that is not the case here. If this issue cannot be resolved, you may wish to study the dispute resolution procedure.

There have been previous similar cases such as Brisbane Grammar School, where such information was included with concern that it was a case that needed to be mentioned because it was in the public domain, but that it should be done so proportionately. You may like to augment other sections in the article, e.g. history, but these should be original writing, not copied and pasted from existing schools texts (unless released under GNU Free Documentation License).

Moyer placement

50.200.118.243, The history section of an article is for all of the historic events that led to what the current article is about. All of the other current sections of the page are about what the school is currently. The moyer event happened many years ago, so it belongs in the history section. I am not necessarily correct, so I would like to hear your point of view on the subject. If needed, we can request at TO or third opinion. Please refer to yourself as Editor 1, because we are both operating under the same external IP address. Thanks, 50.200.118.243 (talk) 16:30, 16 November 2015 (UTC)

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Added back the section on Gregory Allen Moyer, which is a notorious piece of school history. ~Jackson — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:1:F16C:608F:1FE2:403A:B4AF:359F (talk) 02:09, 21 March 2018 (UTC)

National Football League alumni list modified

Greetings! I have updated the list of NFL players who are alumni, added cites for the players on the list and College Hall of Fame inductees.

Sparkyhardwood (talk) 19:05, 11 January 2019 (UTC)

== Please note that John Jordan Wicker listed in the Past Presidents column is not the same as State Senator John Jordan Wicker who was his eldest son! John Wicker Senior was, prior to taking the position of President of Fork Union Military was a noted Baptist minister and author of the book "The Strangest Man Who Ever Lived". Wicker's influence helped the Schools finances during the great Depression.

Great Grandson of John J. Wicker Sr. George Lynch 2001:5B0:4ED6:2678:9099:56D3:5D21:394D (talk) 18:08, 13 July 2024 (UTC)