Talk:Hobby Lobby smuggling scandal

About this article

The subject of this article features in the history of several of subjects which have Wikipedia articles, including

• Hobby Lobby
• Museum of the Bible
• Archaeological looting in Iraq
• National Museum of Iraq

To establish this article I drafted a brief lead and copied the existing text from Hobby Lobby and Museum of the Bible.

This story made the international news cycle at least 3 times - the 2015 reported start of the investigation, in July 2017 with the US Federal Court settlement, and in May 2018 with the reported repatriation of the artifacts. Instead of developing this story in multiple places, Wikipedia should sort all the sources here then link all other articles here. Blue Rasberry (talk) 02:42, 3 May 2018 (UTC)

This article is libel

There is not one single citation anywhere in the article to justify the two following statements:

• The Hobby Lobby smuggling scandal is the series of events starting in 2009 when representatives of Hobby Lobby organized archaeological looting in Iraq to present smuggled artifacts to the Museum of the Bible.
• Notably Hobby Lobby neglected to confirm where the artifacts had been stored.

These two statements are so explosive, and their allegations so serious, that they should be deleted from the article unless a SPECIFIC citation uses those words from a reliable source like the US attorneys that handled the case. I am deleting them to avoid any claims of libel from affected parties.Eric the fever (talk) 00:30, 10 August 2018 (UTC)

July 4, 2020

Hi guys. I'd appreciate it if someone more scholarly or otherwise literate in the subject would double check my major additions on July 4, 2020. Note that the source I added from The Atlantic is huge and untapped. The main thing I need help on is locating one source that I had found and lost. There was either an interview or an essay I think possibly on a weblog which will serve as a situational WP:RS, with one consultant to the Green family who had blatantly told them that all this stuff was illegal before buying it, and advised them not to buy it, but *then* wrote a followup exposé saying that they bought it in bad faith. It's the same expert named in RSes. I had originally thought that I had nailed that idiot David by quoting his admission of ignorance, but then I found that article and realized that David was hugely lying. He was saying "I couldn't have known" in public as a standard tactic to save face and cut his PR losses. So I want to cover the controversy by counterpointing his quote with this expert advisor's testimony and let the reader decide. Thanks. — Smuckola(talk) 22:11, 23 July 2020 (UTC)

@Smuckola: Here are those edits: special:diff/962778832/966287409

Feedback:

Some of the content you added seems to be about the Museum of the Bible and not the subject of this article. If you see this also, could you please move content into the museum article, so that this article can be about this one specific incident? Other topics might be the Dead Sea Schools, moon, and the financial issues. Blue Rasberry (talk) 22:50, 23 July 2020 (UTC)

Slate article

As noted by Doug Weller at Talk:Hobby Lobby: New Slate article, "That Robby Hobby". Although it appears to be an opinion piece, the author, Erin L. Thompson, looks like an expert on the subject. GA-RT-22 (talk) 17:18, 5 October 2021 (UTC)

I just came here to share this. Currently the wiki article is framed as one incident. This Slate article instead tells the story of an ongoing series of activities. There are citations in this piece pointing to other publications and naming other archaeologists, artifacts, involved organizations, lawsuits, and occurrences. A lot in the Slate article is not represented here. Blue Rasberry (talk) 12:19, 6 October 2021 (UTC)