Re: Paid Editing on WP is permissible

[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

[ericbarbour]

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.

[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/

[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.