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I noticed that one of the first articles you edited was Model mugging, which appears to be dealing with a topic with which you may have a conflict of interest. In other words, you may find it difficult to write about that topic in a neutral and objective way, because you are, work for, or represent, the subject of that article. Your recent contributions may have already been undone for this very reason.

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September 2015

Hello, I'm BU Rob13. Wikipedia is written by people who have a wide diversity of opinions, but we try hard to make sure articles have a neutral point of view. Your recent edit to Model mugging seemed less than neutral to me, so I removed it for now. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. ~ Rob^Talk 14:57, 5 September 2015 (UTC)

For the record, that's a generic message produced by a template. ~ Rob^Talk 18:51, 5 September 2015 (UTC)

Conflict of interest

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Clarification

Afternoon!

A fellow wikipedian left a note on my talk page that you had a grievance against me posted in the teahouse. I'd love to clarify a few specifics. The basics: I'm a guy, I've been here a while, I don't work for anything martial arts or self defense related. In fact my day to day couldn't be further removed. You claim there's a Conflict of Interest but you admittedly work for Model Mugging. I'd love to call your attention to the very definition of Irony. Not sure where you're getting your claims of Biography of Living Persons violation from. The article isn't about a living person and even if it were I hardly think two sentences of criticism in a fairly long article represents "lack of balance". I'd highly recommend you take a minute to read the BLP Policies As for disregarding consensus I'd like you to visit the talk page and read it one more time. It seems that consensus is pretty strong with you being the single and solitary hold-out. There's no consensus dispute when there's only a single editor who works for the company the article is about in disagreement with literally everyone else.

In the spirit of being constructive and in the hopes you can rationalize that there's no grand conspiracy against your company by some outside competitor the following are the reasons I've made my edits:

Wikipedia is not a platform to Advertise your business Your constant attempt to turn the page into a Publicity Piece is completely against the ethos of Wikipedia. When your version of the article has 3/4 of the page just listing indiscriminate media references under a section header titled "Publicity" I have a problem with that as do evidently all the other editors on the page. I'd have the same problem on any other page so please don't feel singled out.

When you whitewash an article by deleting any reference to properly cited yet negative material you skew the balance. If you look at the entire article very few sentences are negative, there was never a robust and long list of critique nor was there any hyperbole in any of the cited controversy. The controversy was properly cited and from a solid source just because you don't like it or agree with it doesn't justify removal and your personal opinions on the topic or about Peri aren't valid counter sources nor is your website or any of your personally published information on your website or your 20 year old newsletter.

In the end this isn't a fight I seriously doubt there's some sort of grand conspiracy or smear campaign going on and if there is I'm certainly not affiliated with it. If I could offer you one single bit of advice it would be to calm down a few notches. When you spend what appears to be hours and hours of your life making that PDF and writing long diatribes it usually turns out to be counter productive and then draws further attention to your conflict of interest and brings more people into the discussion some of whom will probably try to dig up even more controversy and publish it often times just because they find it entertaining to further spin up someone who's already become very emotionalized. I've been on the receiving end of that here with other articles I've worked with over the past decade so I know it first hand.

Nefariousski (talk) 23:04, 30 September 2015 (UTC)

Nefariousski - I reached out to you in the beginning of all this, but received nothing in return from you. As a rookie to Wikipedia, I have spent more time figuring out the buttons than writing, which was why I whitewashed edits as you described it. The paper was easy to put together and save as a pdf.

I do not view your work as a conspiracy, but rather as an attack.

You have come across as wanting to harm.

The article IS about a living person with an approach and terms that have been insulting. FreeRangeFrog agreed in a prior post and then you went back again at it. Rumors are not a ‘solid’ source.

I completely agree with the term “irony”, which is exactly how you have come across regarding COI.

Please remember that Model Mugging never uploaded the entry into Wikipedia. My edit pointed out the complete unbalance difference about using a single source versus the hundreds of others written about the program. I tied in historical aspects into my edit around that single source. The title “Publicity” was chosen because I did not know what else to name it other than the approach you were insisting, which was solely negative publicity and the opposite of NPOV - the same could be said about your opinion of the article.

The newsletters were not mine, and again, 'ironically' written by the person who helped fueled this whole issue of the Peri article. The newsletter brings out some of the historical context of the article.

Base on your note - I truly hope my opinion of you is an exaggeration. You stated this is not a fight, but you have demonstrated an intent to harm in your related contributions. Your work on the two pages appears highly suspicious.