":::I have an interest in the subject, that is not the same as a Conflict of Interest. Conflict of Interest has to do with bias and the inability to comply with the guideline of neutral point of view. There is so much stuff going on in the industries that are of interest for me, from a writers point of view as well as general interest in the dynamics of those things. I don't consider a lot of the stuff notable and worth the time to spend on to craft a good article for Wikipedia. I don't as much as you that Wikipedia is getting degraded to a business directory where every little blimp of a company has an article. That is what sites like Business.com, the Yahoo! Directory or the Yellowpages are for. I don't have even the time to spend on articles about subjects that don't matter. None of us is being paid for the time we spent at Wikipedia. I also don't get any other benefit out of it, except bad words from my own peers and mistrust from editors here. All in all does it result in more time spent for free on things that have nothing to do with the content in Wikipedia. Why am I doing it anyway? Because I think that it is a good thing and useful to people. Not everything useful and good should have a price tag attached to it and prevent access to it by people who can't pay for it. That may sounds like a conflict of interest to you, hearing it from the mouth of somebody who calls himself a marketer, but the funny thing is, that it actually isn't. I simply have a different attitude towards things than many others. I also have the habit to be straight forward, some call it blunt, but I prefer things spoken out and on the table to be able to tackle the issues effectively. So yes, I assumed good faith during the discussion and was honest, forthcoming, consensus seeking and trusted your ability to be reasonable. The faith suffered severely when you started to turn away from the debate to go on a campaign that was off topic and to be blunt again, just wrong. You might want to take a step back and look at the things that happened from a 10 miles from above perspective. Once you did that, we might be able to discuss things again with the possibility to come to a consensus that satisfies both of us and any other involved editor as well. Before we know it, we might be able to get a good article out of it in return, maybe even featured article, who knows.   .oOo.  

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