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More cleanup needed

I performed some cleanup of the supposed criticism section of this article two days ago, and am writing to urge further revisions of the entire article so that it moves toward wikipedia's published standards. I write here to warn that such an editor or editors may need more cybersecurity backup than I have. After I previewed my changes that morning and started cleaning it up further, I received odd error messages about my session having been lost, etc., so I saved my work in a separate file, and went to a library in the afternoon. My laptop had become very sluggish, but I managed to post them by cutting and pasting the file shortly after logging in, whereupon it became even slower, including yesterday. This morning I noticed that someone tried to wipe my editor's comment within hours using a mobile edit, although I haven't been able to use wikipedia on any of several successive phones for about two years. I haven't taken out the duplicate sentences "One of his primary leadership directives was that GE had to be No. 1 or No. 2 in the industries it participated in" even though the only source is an antiessays.com cite that I can't access without subscribing -- and which appears taken wholesale from another source, which would violate longstanding anti-plagarism wikipedia policy. I find it particularly ironic that the article keeps restating the subject's openness to criticism, yet any criticism seems to get silenced. Published articles (if not books) in the last couple of years have evaluated Welch far more critically than his heavily promoted books, and the changes I made were based on a supporter's published interview and other accessible sources. I don't have time nor the resources to find the articles (if any) that elaborate the basic discussion Welch abhores, namely that at the highest ranks, compensation is based on market power and luck, rather than truly free market forces.14:25, 18 April 2018 (UTC)