Benjiboi's evasive responses to questions about his identity and COI issues made me revisit
this discussion in which an editor asks him to reveal if he is involved in or plans to become involved in paid editing. His response is three long paragraphs, most of which is not relevant to that question, but in the middle of the third paragraph it says:
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If you read many of my statements you hopefully will see I have no vested interest in the outcome except that it remain accurate. To suggest otherwise is a mistake.
Hoping that readers see that you have no vested interest and
having no vested interest aren't quite the same thing, so the questioner asks for a less ambiguous reply and is told:
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I think I've answered that actually although if you don't trust me I'm unsure why you would trust anything I write.
I actually think Benjiboi does good work in the areas to which he contributes, but these two episodes have eroded his credibility rather badly. I agree with the earlier statement that the attention on his two bios probably arises from his attempts to control the draft guidelines on paid editing which likely caused someone to start digging a little deeper in looking for his motivations.