Talk:Credit One Bank

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Moved to talk for discussion

I've moved these edits here for discussion [1], minus the two links that are not reliable sources. I think this editor was trying to source the information with the links, but I don't see the connection: --Ronz (talk) 19:31, 2 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

FNBM was twice cited by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency for fraudulent marketing practices and entered into consent decrees which included establishing restitution funds to repay defrauded consumers (2001, $4 million; 2004, $10 million.) Numerous complaints continue to be filed against Credit One regarding disclosure and imposition of fees, improper crediting of payments, refusal to close accounts as instructed, and fraudulent and abusive collection practices.

Sherman and its related entities are also the subjects of voluminous consumer complaints.

Credit One Bank article. Corporate and/or PR firm influence

I did some research today and found some strong direct/circumstantial evidence that the Credit One Bank article has corporate and/or public relations firm editing going on. Specifically, there has been scrubbing of the unflattering/negative information in the article and the addition of unsourced promotional/positive material.

Recently, I edited the article citing high authority sources like the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg News and the Better Business Bureau so the article more reliably reflects reality.

In the past, I caught another company's employee editing Wikipedia to remove negative information using the IP address (A fellow Wikipedian awarded a "The Defender of the Wiki Barnstar" in relation to this matter). So I know Wikipedia has to guard against this type of thing.

Wikipedia admins, please do what you can to prevent the article from being scrubbed of legitimate negative information concerning this company.

Below is some research I compiled today that shows direct/circumstantial evidence of corporate and/or PR editing.

Editors who only did edits to Credit One Bank article at Wikipedia

LongJumper23

Brentydaman

AreAreDubya

JumpyJoker18

Grapebomb

Editors with very few edits to Wikipedia who edited the Credit One Wikipedia article

CreditOne

Mobashshirrehan

Ziffel

Unflattering information removed (unsourced)

Unflattering information removed (unsourced)

I hope this information I compiled is helpful as far as maintaining the quality of the article. Knox490 (talk) 04:32, 7 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

It certainly is. And good work piecing it together! I noticed this article was in fairly poor shape a few months ago, so I put it on my watchlist; I am going through clearing it out right now, but after seeing this I will keep it on there! jp×g 22:57, 6 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]