User:Bri/COI patterns
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I have an interest in Conflict-of-interest editing on Wikipedia and have been involved at WP:COIN for a while. These are rule-of-thumb patterns gained from that experience.
See User:Doc James/Paid editing § 11b. Score articles on "sockiness" for suggestions on building a ML oracle that will apply these and act accordingly.
Invariants
- Any article with "solution" in the lede is a COI
- Any article about a company with >1k text created by a redlinked user on their first edit is a COI
- Any article citing bobsguide.com is a COI
Likely indicators
- An article about a business school is 90% likely to be COI
- An article about a CEO is 50% likely to be COI
- An article about a CEO created within 1 week of the company's article is 99% likely COI
- A new bio article with a section titled "awards and accolades" is 90% likely COI