Talk:Questioned document examination

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Just added a cleanup-date template to this. The mention of a TV show on the very first paragraph and the removal of a References section (deemed not belonging to an encyclopaedia) by the main author of this article makes me highly suspicious of its accuracy and reliability.

Being ignorant on the subject myself, I consider smacking a template to be my best course of action towards helping improve this article. Removal of mentions of popular culture sources from the main body of the article and the addition of proper references would help greatly.

These issues were resolved (I hope) and the clean-up tag removed. Brent Ostrum 21:19, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Who does this work?

Don't know if anyone is still looking at this page, but why wouldn't a forensic document expert and a graphologist be the same? There are quite a few in the U.S. who make their living doing both. This distinction smacks of POV, not actual case studies. Bruxism (talk) 06:19, 30 December 2007 (UTC)

  • There is a large difference between a forensic document examiner and a graphologist. The latter is a person who claims to be able to determine a writer's personality from their handwriting, similar to how a palm reader would read the lines in a person's hand. They're both devoid of evidence to back up their claims. On the other hand, a forensic document examiner is a trained, tested and skilled practitioner who almost always has at least a bachelor's degree in a scientific discipline, is trained under other skilled examiners in a recognized and often accredited laboratory, and provides testimony to a court, inquest, or tribunal as an expert witness. Moreover, a skilled examiner compares two pieces of writing to determine authorship, no inference to personality is made in the slightest. Those who claim to be able to perform both disciplines should be approached with extreme caution as they most likely are lacking any real scientific approach to their work. This isn't POV, these are the standards of the profession. TimothyPilgrim (talk) 19:17, 31 December 2007 (UTC)