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I am Australian living in Europe. My major interests on Wikipedia are in monitoring and updating pages related to the direct selling industry - a 40 billion industry involving tens of thousands of companies and millions of people. I've noticed extreme amounts of not neutral POV editing often appears in these articles, both by supporters and critics. I've noted that critical edits are often aided by a very small but vocal minority of critics, who, virtually by definition, have more time to edit and change these than may those with experience and knowledge in the area, who are usually working part-time businesses on top of full-time employment.

In addition there's been a tendency for editors to use easily accessible sources (unfortunately including self-published websites) both as sources for the articles as well as for their own "self-education" while ignoring a large body of more reliably published work, particularly books and pay-walled academic papers.

Unfortunately this has often lead to clear WP:UNDUE and WP:BALANCE problems.

Hopefully I can help Wikipedia develop fair, balanced, accurate, and well sourced articles in these areas.

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