Talk:Million Dollar Listing

COI

Can Anmccaff explain what the COI is in this article? It just looks like a dull US daytime equivalent of Homes Under The Hammer. Ritchie333 ^{(talk) (cont)} 15:53, 14 August 2017 (UTC)

I think the editing pattern of this whole family of articles speaks for itself - multiple examples of single-purpose accounts, from the starts to the present. It's barely possile, I suppose, that there are some people that fixated without some personal or monetary connection, but it's pretty damned unlikely. Can User:Ritchie333 disagree? Anmccaff (talk) 16:02, 14 August 2017 (UTC)

Just looks like somebody who likes watching a lot of daytime television, which would suggest a stay-at-home parent, self-employed, part time, retired etc. Ritchie333 ^{(talk) (cont)} 16:04, 14 August 2017 (UTC)

That would not explain the SPAs, like user:Mbarywiki, for instance. Anmccaff (talk) 16:07, 14 August 2017 (UTC)

@Anmccaff: Do you have any evidence at all or do you just like throwing threats around? Let's take a look at the text you added on top of the article - A major contributor to this article appears to have a close connection with its subject. Here are the revision statistics. As you can see, the major contributor (indeed, one who has added an overall majority of the content by several orders of magnitude) is BD2412. So, where is BD2412's conflict of interest in this article? Ritchie333 ^{(talk) (cont)} 14:25, 16 August 2017 (UTC)

I think user:Mbarywiki's contributions speak for themselves. Three article creations, one rightly speedy deleted, and one AfDed, but survived. All connected with LA real estate. At the time the question of whether they were a little too narrowly focused came up, they'd edited almost exclusively on one topic, in a way that could be seen as centered on one company. Anmccaff (talk) 15:53, 16 August 2017 (UTC)

I agree with Ritchie333's comment above. I am the major contributor to this article. I have no COI. This page was originally created as a disambiguation page, but the topics are related, so I converted it to a set index, and added text and sources consistent with what was already contained in the sub-articles. There have been no "major" changes at all since I completed this transition sixteen months ago, not by Mbarywiki, not by anyone else. I have been a Wikipedia administrator for over ten years and have edited over 400,000 pages in Wikipedia, most far more extensively and with far more attention than this one (see, e.g. Size, Guessing, Demographics of the Supreme Court of the United States, How much wood would a woodchuck chuck, and Shut up). bd2412 T 16:08, 16 August 2017 (UTC)

No, User:BD2412, you really aren't. The article goes back, essentially, another decade, and starts with, and continues with, several SPAs, e.g. the article creator. This started as Million Dollar Listing Los Angeles, remember. Anmccaff (talk) 16:22, 16 August 2017 (UTC)

This is not Million Dollar Listing Los Angeles‎; that article, and its entire history, were moved elsewhere. If your concern is with that article, then your tag is misplaced. bd2412 T 16:25, 16 August 2017 (UTC)

It's a direct fork; a problem with one is a problem with both, up to the time of splitting. That said, If you feel that whatever influence single-purpose editors have had has been diluted out of significance by others like yourself, knock yourself out. That may well be true, but you ought to explicitly state it rather than cavil. Anmccaff (talk) 16:32, 16 August 2017 (UTC)

Nevertheless, you are on the wrong page to discuss problems primarily found in the history of Million Dollar Listing Los Angeles‎. bd2412 T 17:03, 16 August 2017 (UTC)

Anmccaff I have been busy with my students returning to class. I do not have any close connection nor any relationship of any kind (financial or otherwise) to this show, nor any TV show, including its participants. I have one Wiki account. I am teacher, and I supplement my income by writing for a newspaper that has an entertainment section.Mbarywiki (talk) 00:57, 16 August 2017 (UTC)