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Re: Paid Editing on WP is permissible
Posted: Sat Mar 23, 2024 3:11 pm
by badmachine
probably not paid editing, but it looks like an autobiography:
Modernchoice is probably
Mohammed Saleem:
Mohammed Saleem[1] is an environmental activist, environmental campaigner, National Geographic educator and explorer. He is the co-founder of Environment Conservation Group, a nonprofit NGO based out of Coimbatore, Tamilnadu that works on environmental conservation, advocacy and educational awareness. He has dedicated his entire life to the cause of environmental and wildlife conservation. He is also an ardent birder.[2][3]
Mr Saleem shares a name with a Palestinian who was murdered by the jews when they dropped a box of leaflets on his head. i wonder if this autobiography will go unnoticed
Re: Paid Editing on WP is permissible
Posted: Sun Mar 24, 2024 2:23 am
by ericbarbour
badmachine wrote: ↑Sat Mar 23, 2024 3:11 pm
Mr Saleem shares a name with a Palestinian who was murdered by the jews when they dropped a box of leaflets on his head. i wonder if this autobiography will go unnoticed
It belongs here whoever "Modernchoice" is. BTW there are several prominent people named "Mohammed Saleem". Including that guy who was
murdered in Birmingham, a
cricketer from Afghanistan, and a 12-year-old Pakistani girl who
posed as a boy. Plus a
child-molesting school founder in Illinois. Probably a few others. It is a rather common Muslim name.
But you Google that name and Google forces the Wikipedia article down your throat. None of the others are mentioned on WP that I can find.
Bonus: change the "o" to a "u" and you get
this. Which also appears to be a paid/COI article. About a rather obscure figure.
Re: Paid Editing on WP is permissible
Posted: Thu Apr 04, 2024 10:32 pm
by ericbarbour
Unnoticed paid edit war of the week:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Stankey
See the talkpage. Fleishman Hillard is openly biasing it to make Stankey look like a great hero. Completely controlled by
Jon Gray.
It is not difficult to find scandals and "bad news" involving Stankey. "Pac Bell and then AT&T lifer", and arrogant blowhard, who helped rebuild AT&T from a divested shell back to its present near-monopoly, AND bought DirecTV, then ran it into the ground, AND was directly involved with wrecking Warner Media and HBO, then sold it off to Discovery Networks, who ruined it even more. NONE of which you will find on his Wp article.
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/05/17/att-ceo ... enson.html
https://apnews.com/article/50e1c3a15ba1 ... 1351874ad4
https://cordcuttersnews.com/directv-rep ... ing-grows/
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/06 ... hn-stankey
https://variety.com/2022/digital/news/a ... 235226663/
Re: Paid Editing on WP is permissible
Posted: Tue Apr 16, 2024 7:48 pm
by ericbarbour
I would tell you about the "prominent jazz guitarist" who wrote his own BLP and was totally ignored.
But it's just too cringe. Plus he's a customer of my products, who does NOT know what he's doing.
Re: Paid Editing on WP is permissible
Posted: Tue Apr 30, 2024 6:24 pm
by ericbarbour
from a Dark Corners thread.....
Is
Omaha Steaks being paid edited? Yep. Very funny talkpage.
Re: Paid Editing on WP is permissible
Posted: Mon May 06, 2024 5:39 pm
by ericbarbour
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jolie_Holland
Semi-well-known indie folk musician. Never heard of her? Neither did I....until TAPE OP magazine ran an item on her recently.
Did she edit her own bio?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:C ... ie_Holland
It mentions one of her recording engineers,
Joel Hamilton. Whose article was created and chundered massively by one account.
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?ti ... &limit=500
And more recently, by an IP address in NYC, as is Joel.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:C ... :EEAC:5756
And what about his part-time band,
The Book Of Knots? The work of a
person who loves ultra-obscure indie bands.
Insert cruel joke about musicians here.
Re: Paid Editing on WP is permissible
Posted: Tue May 07, 2024 6:54 pm
by ericbarbour
Chamber of Commerce bullshit of the week:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clearfield,_Utah
Do you see any references in the "History" or "Government" sections?
It took them TWO YEARS to figure out they should block this account. And more than ten years later, no one has seen fit to fix the content.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Clearfieldcity