Talk:Ian Bremmer

message: Look at some similar articles. This one reads like a PR piece, not an encyclopedia article. Flatterworld (talk) 05:29, 21 December 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: That's just what I was thinking.  His claim of coming up with "America First" a century after it was coined is absurd. 65.68.190.219 (talk) 08:00, 19 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  General tone 

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message: Making note of what I suspect to be several instances of undisclosed WP:COI issue. This article has already been noted to have issues along the lines of WP:NPOV and WP:NOTADVERTISING, which appear to stem largely from four accounts:
* User:Ngedana appears associated with Eurasia Group. Per Xtools, 20% of the text on the page currently is written by this user, the largest of any editor. Edits focus on him and related topics.
* 67.86.120.150, a New Jersey-based IP address, has the most edits to this page by far, although they were excessively adulatory and the original text is mostly gone. It created the article for Bremmer, his company, and his book. 
* 67.250.41.182, also editing almost exclusively to add information about Bremmer, geolocated to New York.
Update: From other articles, here are users that appear to pop up solely to add external links or otherwise embellish Bremmer/Eurasia Group-related content. I made note of some of them on the Eurasia Group talk page here, but as I go through other books and accounts it's going to be more convenient to put them all together in one place. This was not how intend to spend my Saturday morning, but here we are anyways :) :) :)
* JaneEG (guessing EG = Eurasia Group), whose 2010 edits almost exclusively focused on Ian Bremmer, his book, or adding citations and laudatory references to Bremmer in articles like State capitalism. 
* User:Brianharper89, edits to Eurasia Group earlier this year mostly later undone.
* User:Shenning18, who has exclusively edited on the Eurasia Group page after the edits by Brianharper89 were undone.
* Eganjali, who made the page for Bremmer’s The J Curve (book) and has made no edits since 2006, when the account evidently intervened to delete an AfD discussion. 
* 24.136.27.77, A Chicago-area IP with only four edits, all from 2010 and all about Bremmer and links to articles about him field. 
* Numerous other IP accounts that only edit to add information related Bremmer, his company, or his works. Some examples include 69.86.1.174, 69.193.191.194, and 81.143.141.233.
In short: It appears several accounts near where Bremmer and his company are located have been driving the production of this article and other related ones for several years, using it as an advertising platform. Evidence an employee of the company specifically created an account to specifically edit as well. I am going to do major cleanup and will refer to this discussion section to justify rather large deletions of content, if necessary. WhinyTheYounger (talk) 03:57, 13 June 2020 (UTC)
replies: text:  This is worrying, and I’d be the first to call out WP:COI and WP:PAID editing. I applaud your efforts. But I think a bit of the proverbial baby has been thrown out with the bath water here, as you also removed citations to the Wall Street Journal and the New York Stock Exchange. I’m not saying either are due in context, but they should probably be discussed. Symmachus Auxiliarus (talk) 14:55, 13 June 2020 (UTC)
replies: text:   Thanks for the heads up. Perhaps out of annoyance I am assuming bad faith, which I'll be careful to avoid going forward. That said, I think the WSJ source you're referring to though is still problematic, or at the very least redundant--the link was just a book review (and the book is already detailed in the body, though I have initiated AfD discussions for it, because of the above-mentioned COI issues but primarily the fact that the book does not seem to meet WP:NBOOK standards, per my understanding). I'm not sure what you're referring to regarding the NYSE thing--I believe I removed an NYSE link on Eurasia Group, but that was because it was NYSE announcing a partnership with Eurasia Group in what seemed to be a press release. WhinyTheYounger (talk) 15:39, 13 June 2020 (UTC)

text: Can these accounts be added as COI to the top of this article and to the talk pages of Eurasia Group? Just to make everyone well-aware of these problems. Snooganssnoogans (talk) 14:57, 13 June 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Severe Conflict of Interest issues 

message: Ian says in this tweet that he is the grandson of "Armenian and syrian immigtant" not Armenian from Syria. He has both ancestries. https://x.com/ianbremmer/status/666977780085731328?t=_f3b1jrFPyPPo6YPGn0V9Q&s=09
He also said on his FB page that his grandmother came from Syria, in the comments he was asked what the breakdown of his heritage was, Bremmer replied: Armenian/Syrian/German/Italian/native American.
https://m.facebook.com/ianbremmer/photos/a.382808748558842/627155227457525/?type=3&mibextid=CDWPTG Whatsupkarren (talk) 13:15, 26 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Syrian origin