retired senior detective has has left the following comment in the article sentence phil cleary a retired senior police detective and ceo of smartwater ltd after the word senior note to author sorry i wish only made sergeant but thanks anyway phil cleary please note that there is no way for other wikipedians to verify that this comment was indeed made by the named person but i am going to assume that it was the senior is a direct quote from the cited source the wired article smartwater ceo phil cleary a retired senior detective hit upon the idea after watching burglars he had apprehended walk free from court due to lack of evidence usually wired magazine is considered a reasonably reliable source but since the fact in question is not very important in the context of this wikipedia article i am just going to remove it just as a precaution i'd also like to mention this advice am i allowed to edit articles about myself or my organization in any case notification of potential errors in this article is very welcome on this talk page and i have to say it is rather refreshing to see an article's subject complain about being portrayed too positively this kind of modesty does not seem to be too widespread regards