A conflict of interest occurs when editors use Wikipedia to advance the interests of their external roles or relationships. The type of COI editing that compromises Wikipedia the most is paid editing
Guarita State Park was one of several articles affected by a covert advertising campaign. The article's previous main image (above) was briefly replaced by one prominently featuring a man in a North Face jacket.
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American journalist John Seigenthaler (1927–2014), subject of the Seigenthaler biography incident
Sue Gardner, first executive director, in 2013 at Wikimania
Wikipedia Monument in Słubice, Poland, by Mihran Hakobyan (2014)