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I have been watching this page, alongside hundreds of others, for several years now. During this time I have seen multiple attempts to remove the controversy section from this article. This has been done by:
And now we are subjected to the biased and uncivil editing of User:Peacenik162, an account which appears to have been created for the sole purpose of promoting the subject of this article. This user has repeatedly removed referenced content without explanation, has used unreliable sources to promote the company (I actually left a friendly message about this on their talk page explaining why the source is unreliable, but they have not replied to my comment, and have continued to add the unreliable source back to the article), and is deliberately skewing sources to say things they don't back up. For example, an article by Crikey simply states "The Australian Defence Force has sidestepped conflict of interest concerns over a social media review awarded to George Patterson Y&R, the advertising behemoth that also handles the ADF’s coveted $40 million recruitment account." Peacenik162 has repeatedly used this source to say "Following the controversy, an external probe into the matter found that there was "no conflict" of interest between the ADF and GPY&R", which is not backed up by the reference. And Peacenik162 is now accusing me of having an agenda against the company because I am defending this article from their promotional bias. I mention this so that other editors can have an understanding of the kind of biased attacks this article has been subject to. I'm sure the media would find this information interesting as well. Freikorp ( talk) 23:27, 6 March 2018 (UTC)
User:Freikorp has been reported to administrators' noticeboard for incidents, for repetitive and disruptive editing to this page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Peacenik162 ( talk • contribs) 00:35, 7 March 2018 (UTC)
@ Peacenik162 and Freikorp: try discussion rather than edit warring. On first look it looks like the changes Peacenik162 wants to make in the Controversy section is gives undue weight to a single source. I am always wary of the editing around PR and advertising company articles, doubly so when a brand new account shows up to completely change the tone of the article. I know that we assume good faith here but neither was I born yesterday. Jbh Talk 05:32, 7 March 2018 (UTC)
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I have been watching this page, alongside hundreds of others, for several years now. During this time I have seen multiple attempts to remove the controversy section from this article. This has been done by:
And now we are subjected to the biased and uncivil editing of User:Peacenik162, an account which appears to have been created for the sole purpose of promoting the subject of this article. This user has repeatedly removed referenced content without explanation, has used unreliable sources to promote the company (I actually left a friendly message about this on their talk page explaining why the source is unreliable, but they have not replied to my comment, and have continued to add the unreliable source back to the article), and is deliberately skewing sources to say things they don't back up. For example, an article by Crikey simply states "The Australian Defence Force has sidestepped conflict of interest concerns over a social media review awarded to George Patterson Y&R, the advertising behemoth that also handles the ADF’s coveted $40 million recruitment account." Peacenik162 has repeatedly used this source to say "Following the controversy, an external probe into the matter found that there was "no conflict" of interest between the ADF and GPY&R", which is not backed up by the reference. And Peacenik162 is now accusing me of having an agenda against the company because I am defending this article from their promotional bias. I mention this so that other editors can have an understanding of the kind of biased attacks this article has been subject to. I'm sure the media would find this information interesting as well. Freikorp ( talk) 23:27, 6 March 2018 (UTC)
User:Freikorp has been reported to administrators' noticeboard for incidents, for repetitive and disruptive editing to this page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Peacenik162 ( talk • contribs) 00:35, 7 March 2018 (UTC)
@ Peacenik162 and Freikorp: try discussion rather than edit warring. On first look it looks like the changes Peacenik162 wants to make in the Controversy section is gives undue weight to a single source. I am always wary of the editing around PR and advertising company articles, doubly so when a brand new account shows up to completely change the tone of the article. I know that we assume good faith here but neither was I born yesterday. Jbh Talk 05:32, 7 March 2018 (UTC)