Todd at Figs

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Questionable edits

Todd,

Thank you for getting in touch with me and doing things per policy.

It does seem kind of excessive for something that, while relatively recent, I had never heard of, and seems not to have continuing interest.

I looked into the article history to see who might have added this.

The first edits are from an IP, 97.112.208.204 (talk · contribs · WHOIS), which has made only those two edits. The first used a misleading edit summary to add some pejoratives to the lede; then after that was reverted added an unsourced section with a clear point of view that was also reverted; they were warned for both edits. Looks like someone was really angry about this.

A few hours afterward, Lmq882 added a more detailed section, more neutrally phrased, with sources, that's largely what's there now.

I do not think these two are the same person (I get the feeling there was some mailing list or private forum where some female osteopaths were expressing outrage, and one said "See what I did to their Wikipedia page!", leading someone else to try to do it the right way).

The IP resolves to somewhere in southeastern Alabama near the Georgia-Florida tristate point. That does not, of course, indicate anything about where whoever made those edits actually lives.

Lmq882 started editing Wikipedia last year and has kept a fairly low profile, not creating a user page and not doing anything that prompted any messages on their talk page. Most of their edits have been to a particular osteopathic college, and have consisted of adding affiliated hospitals, information that while not blatantly promotional are sort of, well, perhaps more detail than we really include in most of our articles about medical colleges. I have a feeling there's a connection there, and I should probably post a message about this on their talk page although I doubt I'll get a reply given their infrequent activity.

But, if there's a connection to an institution like that, it should be disclosed, as I think it colors the edit and does make a stronger case for a possible POV being involved. It does seem like Lmq was trying to be fair, but may have tried harder than necessary.

I'll bring this up on the article talk page, too. Daniel Case (talk) 19:58, 11 July 2021 (UTC)

Hi Daniel Case, Thanks so much for your analysis of what happened to the Marketing section, and I am pleased that you seem to agree with me that the section is indeed too long. Anything that you can do to improve that section would be most appreciated. All the best, Todd at Figs (talk) 16:51, 20 July 2021 (UTC)

Done. I would have gotten to it a week ago but something on another website I contribute to wound up taking up more of my time than I expected it to. Thanks for the nudge! Daniel Case (talk) 01:23, 28 July 2021 (UTC)