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Looks like Wikipedia Review has a competitor.

The service is surprisingly affordable, with only $295 for article creation and posting, and only $99 per month for continuous monitoring and maintenance.

Lord & Taylor didn't put Wal-Mart out of business.

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When considering retaining services of WikipediaExperts, please keep in mind that we strictly adhere to NEUTRALITY principle of Wikipedia. In other words, we are getting paid for consultation, research, writing, but will not deviate from Wikipedia principles of Neutral Point of View, Notability, Verifiability, and No Original Research. Just like financial auditors, we charge for our time, but with explicit requirement of UNCOMPROMISED INTEGRITY.

Our services are intended for companies who have verifiably good products and services. We see submitting verifiable INFORMATION to Wikipedia as a large business niche and implement strict internal rules designed to preclude uploading any DESINFORMATION or biased content.

So Jimmy will be blocking all of their editors, just as he did Greg, when he did the same thing? Fair is fair, after all.

This dubious enterprise comes to us, replete with standard Eastern European grammar artifacts, courtesy of Alex Konanykhin (T-H-L-K-D).

Even Anne "Risker" Clin seems to be crumbling to the pressure of money meaning quality and volunteerism meaning crap.

My teeth grate when I think that some people are getting paid to do what so
many of us do simply for the joy of sharing.

Interesting who created that article, seemed to have a single purpose.

Russian Money Weaves a Tangled Web; Dealings of Businessman Wanted by Moscow and Given U.S. Asylum Draw Investigators' Interest
[FINAL Edition]
The Washington Post - Washington, D.C.
Author: Douglas Farah
Date: Sep 19, 1999
Start Page: A.27
Section: A SECTION
Text Word Count: 1702

The businessman was Alexandre Konanykhine, now 33, who said he was vice president of Menatep Bank, a large, politically connected institution. Known within the CIA as "The Kid," Konanykhine had been identified by the U.S. spy agency as a friend of, and political fund- raiser for, Russian President Boris Yeltsin.

Konanykhine (pronounced Koh-Nah-NEE-Kin) also was believed by U.S. intelligence officials to be a member of a select group of former Communist youth activists dubbed the "Miracle Boys." Law enforcement officials and Russian experts said the group was picked by the KGB, the former Soviet Union's intelligence service, to help move billions of dollars outside of Russia. Konanykhine vigorously denies that he was a member of the "Miracle Boys" or had any affiliation with the KGB.

But Konanykhine didn't give up. Nine months later, in June 1994, he set up an Internet financial institution called European Union Bank. Though ostensibly based in the Caribbean island of Antigua, its computer hard drive, containing all the bank's records, was in a Washington apartment rented by one of Konanykhine's associates. Konanykhine lived in a $300,000 co-op at the Watergate at the time, and drove expensive cars.

Sounds like trouble, whatever the real story is.

If you're interested, read the testimony of Yuri Shvets before the US House of Representatives. It's quite a story, and it doesn't exactly match up with Konanykhine's wp bio.

More also here http://www.lexisweb.com/Search.aspx?Query=Konanykhine

For the lurking WP admins who can't be bothered to figure out the socks for themselves:
the aforementioned User:Jdr123
User:Haengbokhada
User:Camper-mann
User:68.192.77.177
User:Graceconcepcionr

Long time editor User:Eclipsed is in there like a dirty shirt. Eclipsed seems to have taken a short editing break from September of 2008 until October of 2010, when they started taking a real interest in creating new articles. User:Sigma0 1 is a possible sock of theirs.

More: Commons editor Konanykhin makes their sole edit on 17:50, 6 November 2010, uploading an image of themselves. A few hours later, Eclipsed makes their first edit on Commons ("hello world") and then adds a category to the Alex Konanykhin image.

David Goodman dgoodmanny at gmail.com
Fri Nov 19 00:05:46 UTC 2010
Most current paid editing gets deleted at Speedy, simply because the
organization has no serious claim to being notable. People who
deliberately write paid articles on topics they know hopeless are
unethical; if they write them without knowing, they are incompetent.
But this sort of thing is not the current problem, for it's no more
difficult to handle than the even larger amount of similar articles by
volunteer editors.

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As for the proprietor of this service, I've just been removing from
the article on him article one of the clear signs of COI/promotional
editing , the excessive use of his name.

KMGi's website claims that it is "...the preferred Interactive Production Studio of the American Association of Advertising Agencies."

I just received an e-mail from the #2 guy at AAAA. He says their counsel will be sending a cease and desist on Monday.