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Did you know... that Conservative Member of Parliament Sarah Wollaston switched from supporting to repudiating the pro-Brexit Vote Leave group, calling its repetition of debunked claims "post-truth politics"?
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Last year I posted a COIN discussion regarding a number of IP addresses adding Jayson Harsin based references to articles including this one. [1] This appears to be a case of an academic, likely legitimate in the field, trying to self promote by putting their name in Wikipedia articles. I'm not familiar enough with this topic to decide if the person in question is over represented, correctly represented etc in context of the number of times they are mentioned by name in this article thus I'm not going to outright remove their additions. I would encourage others to take a look. Looking at various additions of Harsin sources, the first instance was by an IP editor here [2]. This addition included name in the article text, not just references. Additional additions by IP editors [3],[4],[5],[6],[7]Springee (talk) 03:52, 13 January 2024 (UTC)Reply
In addition, these edits are not all confined to Harsin's work. There is a procedure for handling suspicious edits, because under no circumstances are we supposed to compel a typical editor to reveal personal information.
This discussion has been dormant for months and the alleged COI editor has not continued making any changes. There have been no further requested changes so I am removing tag per #7 Help:Maintenance template removal#When to remove...If changes are requested or needed in relation to this issue, there's no need to reinstate the tag, just be WP:BOLD...Cheers. DN (talk) 01:55, 21 November 2024 (UTC)Reply
I think some of the mentions/references to Harsin's work should probably be removed. I don't think it would harm the article overall. Springee (talk) 03:10, 21 November 2024 (UTC)Reply
