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Latest comment: 8 years ago3 comments2 people in discussion
A couple of years ago, I added a few small, cited criticisms of McDonough that were raised in the magazine Fast Company. McDonough PR employee (https://www.linkedin.com/pub/kira-gould/1/6bb/197) KiraGould removed them, as did user RRRFootprint. Having noticed this recently, I spent hours researching criticisms of McDonough, and provided some deeply researched balance to this article, citing Fast Company's detailed profile of McDonough and PBS' Frontline episode dedicated to the flaws in his work. (I also notified KiraGould that her edits were not appropriate under WP:COI.) User RRRFootprint reverted these changes, citing "not enough independent sources - minority views of a specific project." Given McDonough's history of modifying this entry to remove criticisms, and given the speciousness of his reversion claim, I think it's likely that RRRFootprint should also not be contributing to this entry, under WP:COI. I challenge RRRFootprint to demonstrate that he is not prohibited from contributing to this entry under WP:COI. Before further edits are made to add or remove criticisms, they should be addressed here. --WaldoJ (talk) 17:06, 23 February 2015 (UTC)Reply
Waldo – thanks for pointing this out and the time you took to research the information.
What I mean by lack of diverse citations and not enough independent sources, is that the information added was cited by the same source throughout. So here we have a lack of diversity and because it is the only source, there is a lack independent sources. WP:NRVE
Pertaining to the undue weight, this guy who’s worked on several projects throughout his career, it is not necessary to mention every project that he has been involved in. If we gave information on each project, then we’d run into the issue of what makes one project “encyclopedic” over the others? Also, the lack of independent sources depicts that this information is of a minority view (that there is not enough reliable sources providing the same information). So by giving a minority view as much details more widely held views, creates undue weight. More info: WP:UNDUE
Given the above mentioned, the lack of supporting citations and lack of significant attention from sources supporting the added information, makes the information problematic to verify as notable. --RRRFootprint — Preceding undated comment added 17:07, 27 February 2015 (UTC)Reply
