Heads up: Just today I happened to notice that Wikipedia has a bio that reads like a press kit for [[Ronn Torossian]], the owner/founder of a New York city PR firm named [[5W Public Relations]], which has its own separate article. Both of those articles have been heavily and repeatedly edited by User:Judae1, whose user page describes him as "Juda S. Engelmayer, Senior Vice President, Government and Corporate Issues Practice at 5W Public Relations." I also noticed that User:Judae1 has himself repeatedly edited [[Wikipedia:Conflict of interest/Noticeboard]], so it is hard to imagine that he is unaware that his editing of the [[Ronnn Torossian]] and [[5W Public Relations]] articles is in violation of Wikipedia policy. -------------------------------- | Sheldon Rampton | Research director, Center for Media & Democracy (www.prwatch.org) | Author of books including: | Friends In Deed: The Story of US-Nicaragua Sister Cities | Toxic Sludge Is Good For You | Mad Cow USA | Trust Us, We're Experts | Weapons of Mass Deception | Banana Republicans | The Best War Ever -------------------------------- | Subscribe to our free weekly list serve by visiting: | http://www.prwatch.org/cmd/subscribe_sotd.html | | Donate now to support independent, public interest reporting: | http://www.prwatch.org/donate -------------------------------- _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l

On 7/13/07, Sheldon Rampton <sheldon(a)prwatch.org> wrote: Tell [[WP:COIN]]. That's what they deal with.

(From the initials, I assume COIN is an indication that yet another silly Noticeboard has been set up, this one for Conflicts Of Interest?) Oh, God! I rather thought we'd set aside this thing of "don't tell the general community, there's a subset of self-appointed experts who are the sole authority on foo" once and for all more than a year ago[0], after the Community Justice/Civility Noticeboard fiasco. I'm so, so out of touch ...

As an OTRS volunteer and one that monitors BLP/N, I take exception with your negative assessment.