Talk:World Economic Forum/Archives/2021
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Conflict of Interest
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The article on the World Economic Forum includes more than 50 edits by User:Mikeh101, who served as Editorial Director at the World Economic Forum since October 2010, and Senior Director, Communications, from July 2013 to October 2018. It is hence a case of paid editing and should be highlighted as such.
Quote from the author's LinkedIn page: "Responsible for all content published by the World Economic Forum, I led a team of over 20 professionals to: Build the Forum's digital publishing (...) and drive content distribution through all social media channels". This has the touch that the team could see Wikipedia as an extension of their marketing channels, without ever labelling or highlighting the edits made as COI. I am highly concerned.
Is there any way to validate how many further edits have been made by members of the team, given that the team head has made 50+ edits himself alone?
Polynesia2024 (talk) 14:26, 13 November 2021 (UTC)
- No, except to the extent that you (or somebody) can determine the names of all the members (ever) of that team and then match them (somehow) to user accounts at Wikipedia, then check the subset of their edits on WEF-related articles. Pretty rough sledding, that. — JohnFromPinckney (talk / edits) 21:26, 13 November 2021 (UTC)
- I am just witnessing how the "paid editor" box on Klaus Schwab as CEO of the WEF gets extended more and more. There seem to be some very muddy waters in terms of paid Wikipedia edits by the World Economic Forum. --Polynesia2024 (talk) 10:20, 14 November 2021 (UTC)
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Self-citing within article
It seems quite problematic that many of the citations for this article are from the WEF. Things should be either independently cited or stated as "According to the WEF ...". --Polynesia2024 (talk) 13:38, 14 November 2021 (UTC)
- Absolutely they should. See also WP:PRIMARY, so you could tag the whole article with {{Primary sources}}. --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 14:46, 14 November 2021 (UTC)