Talk:John Robert Beyster

Latest comment: 4 years ago by V2Blast in topic Conflict of interest (COI)

Conflict of interest (COI)

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According to the previous revision of his userpage, the user Bizzwriter is Peter Economy, Dr. Beyster's co-author on the book The SAIC Solution. Bizzwriter has been a significant editor of this article:

Of the above edits, the first was the most potentially problematic due to the promotional language/tone and the citation of his own book; the deletions of potentially controversial material could have been a problem and deserve a second look, but in this case the removals were probably warranted.

However, Bizzwriter has also edited numerous other articles (most of them associated with Beyster or SAIC in some way), including several that just add a citation of his own book:

Other self-promotional/COI activity includes basically the entirety of the SPORTS for Exceptional Athletes article (as quoted in the single citation in the article, he is "the father of a Special Olympics athlete who is also helping to form the new agency"), as well as the (now deleted) article on Beyster's Foundation for Enterprise Development. He also edited the Employee stock ownership article to include a link to the FED website. Finally, he has also made a number of edits to the article on Eliza Tibbets, most of which seem fine, but this edit to the "Further reading" section just adds a book written by him and Patricia Ortlieb to that section.

Anyway, the latter section of this message is more to point out that it's not only this article that has been affected by the COI editing. As noted in the former section, a substantial portion of the biographical info in this article (including much of the promotional language/puffery) was written by this user. The article may need significant rewriting to follow WP:NPOV. V2Blast (talk) 03:51, 6 August 2020 (UTC)Reply