[Resending - I believe the first time I was using an old addess for the list.]
A blog post by Benjamin Mako Hill
http://mako.cc/copyrighteous/the-institute-for-cultural-diplomacy-and-wikipe...
alerted me to some COI editing that has been going on, rather blatantly. The deletion debate associated with the [[Institute for Cultural Diplomacy]] speaks for itself, and I see some cleanup going on now. But how far does the issue stretch?
For example [[Colin Evans]] links to [[Freelance Diplomacy]], which is questionably referenced; and itself is questionably referenced, with links that look to me as if they are gaming our notability criteria. (Easy to do with enough money ...)
Looking around at some of the accounts involved suggested to me that some problem editors may be active in this whole area. I think we should be concerned.
Charles