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An admitted employee of Simon & Schuster using the above registered usernames and IP is posting numerous S&S author bios using text copied from other websites, including the S&S website. I posted the info to the [[Wikipedia:Administrator_intervention_against_vandalism|spamdalism noticeboard]] and an admin left [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Gbooks24&diff=136891965&oldid=136888141 a very nice message] for the editor in question explaining [[WP:C]]. I think the [[WP:COI]] concern is much more substantial. Another editor [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Gbooks24&diff=next&oldid=136891965 notified her of WP's COI policy], and [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Gbooks24&diff=next&oldid=136896314 I asked her to disclose her identity on the article's talk pages], but [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Gbooks24&diff=next&oldid=136898359 she is reluctant to do so]. I think the idea of a major publisher posting copyvio bios of its authors on WP is highly inappropriate and borders on [[User:MyWikiBiz]]. Anybody agree? --[[User:Butseriouslyfolks|Butseriouslyfolks]] 20:50, 8 June 2007 (UTC)

: I agree, highly inappropriate and violate [[Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not|WP:NOT]]. — [[User:Athaenara|Athaenara]] [[User talk:Athaenara|✉]] 22:39, 8 June 2007 (UTC)

== Cberlet / Dking ==

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Cberlet and Dking are [[Chip Berlet]] and [[Dennis King]], political activists who campaigned back in the 1980s for the jailing of [[Lyndon LaRouche]]. The two of them have started an edit war at the article [[Lyndon LaRouche]], because they object to the inclusion in the intro of a quote from former Attorney General [[Ramsey Clark]], who casts doubt on the legitimacy of the LaRouche trial. Quotes from Berlet and King are plentiful in the article, but the two of them seek to dominate content in violation of both [[WP:OWN]] and [[WP:COI]]. They are also engaged in abuse of Wikipedia for self-promotion -- Dking was featured earlier on this noticeboard for linkspamming ([http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Conflict_of_interest/Noticeboard&oldid=122946187#Dking_.28talk_.C2.B7_contribs_.C2.B7_logs_.C2.B7_block_user_.C2.B7_block_log.29 see this]],) and Cberlet is engaged in similar activity. --[[User:Don't lose that number|Don't lose that number]] 06:09, 9 June 2007 (UTC)