I can t help the fact that I went to school with him You should assume good faith as well and assume that I am already aware of COI As for rebuttal you are suggesting that there should be an order in which people contribute to the stub That has no rule to back it up and other articles typically are allowed to flow without such objections If you could find a rule stating something along the lines of what you are suggesting I would resign entirely but I doubt it exists I think we ve established the concept of weight means nothing in the context of a stub so please unless you find something perhaps you should reconsider having a problem with the contribution