There have been a few recent media reports in recent weeks about the foundation blocking accounts and ip addresses who contribute to fan boy write ups of corporate pages and identities of individuals who manage these corporations.
Obviously the foundation has not got around to one of the worlds largest mining companies and their CEO Wikipedia fan page.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Walsh_%28businessman%29Edit history
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=...&action=historyYou will note the following Rio Tinto IP's (UK Corporate + Australian Corporate) have anonymously edited the article.
http://whois.domaintools.com/195.101.175.39http://whois.domaintools.com/195.101.175.38http://whois.domaintools.com/58.7.184.244Now we get to social media executives employed at Rio Tinto Plc.
Major editor to the article is a Marinia Plessas -- Principal adviser, External Digital, Corporate Communications, Rio Tinto
On her LinkedIn page
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Managing our external digital space and social media channels
https://uk.linkedin.com/in/marinaplessas https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:MarinaplessasHere is another company editor to the article Edward Creese, Senior advisor - social media at Rio Tinto
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contr.../EdwardStephenChis linkedin profile again...Rio Tinto corporate communications/social media.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/edwardcreesehe even leaves the following on his talk page. How about not editing company articles whilst being paid as an PR employee of that company?
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I am an employee of Rio Tinto. We respect Wikipedia's Terms of Use and will only contribute to ensure neutrality and balance. We welcome any feedback by email to digital.comms@riotinto.com or via the talk page.
Editor Saint Lucy seems to be a corporate write up professional
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=...rget=Saint+LucyI'm certain a majority of the article content has been written by Rio Tintos social media people.
Someone please nominate Sam Walsh article for Featured Article to stir and wake the administrators up.
I'm sure they have better checking tools available than I have.
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