Talk:Tom McGrath (media executive)

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Use of "Peacock" Terms

Can someone please edit the page and remove the "Peacock Terms" comment. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 204.110.112.2 (talk) 18:12, 3 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Edited out superlative expressions and removed "Peacock" designation. --Scottie1492 (talk) 01:12, 10 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Fair use rationale for Image:Prncess Bride.jpg

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Proposing article for deletion per WP:PROD

There are not enough credible sources to keep this article. Archer Drezelan (talk) 00:11, 21 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I've removed the PROD tag as, given the article history and claims of notability, it is not "uncontestably deletable" (which is the guideline for nominating articles as stated at WP:PROD). AfD is a more appropriate venue for deletion of a long standing sourced article where notability and depth of sourcing is an issue. --Jezebel'sPonyo ^shhh 14:11, 21 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

See my comments on Conflict of Interest. User User:Benfeing looks like he accidentally identified himself as Tom McGrath when he created the John Gore (theater producer) page. The revision history shows he has edited his own page. He has also created and edited several pages for people related to his company, Key Brand Entertainment, as well as the company page, itself. -- Nusumareta (talk) 04:18, 3 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Conflict of Interest

See my comments on the same matter in Talk:John Gore (theater producer). It appears in that article that User:Benfeing identifies himself as the "Thomas B. McGrath" with his comments when he created the page. Given that the John Gore subject of that article works for the same company, it seems more than reasonable that this user is the subject of this article. This user has also contributed extensively to this page and I suspect that a lot of the anonymous IP edits to this page are linked to him, or his company. -- Nusumareta (talk) 04:05, 3 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

A second conflict of interest. Here is the ARIN record for the IP address range of the anonymous user (204.110.112.2) who created and extensively edited this article in 2005:

NetRange: 204.110.112.0 - 204.110.127.255 CIDR: 204.110.112.0/20 NetName: PPC-STUDIOS NetHandle: NET-204-110-112-0-1 Parent: NET204 (NET-204-0-0-0-0) NetType: Direct Assignment OriginAS: Organization: Paramount Pictures (PARAMO) RegDate: 1994-10-04 Updated: 2006-03-06 Ref: http://whois.arin.net/rest/net/NET-204-110-112-0-1
OrgName: Paramount Pictures OrgId: PARAMO Address: MOB Basement - Datacenter Address: 5555 Melrose Avenue City: Hollywood StateProv: CA PostalCode: 90038 Country: US RegDate: 1994-10-04 Updated: 2013-03-21 Ref: http://whois.arin.net/rest/org/PARAMO
OrgAbuseHandle: DNSAD155-ARIN OrgAbuseName: DNS Admin OrgAbusePhone: +1-323-956-8010 OrgAbuseEmail: dnsadmin@paramount.com OrgAbuseRef: http://whois.arin.net/rest/poc/DNSAD155-ARIN
OrgTechHandle: DNSAD155-ARIN OrgTechName: DNS Admin OrgTechPhone: +1-323-956-8010 OrgTechEmail: dnsadmin@paramount.com OrgTechRef: http://whois.arin.net/rest/poc/DNSAD155-ARIN
OrgNOCHandle: DNSAD155-ARIN OrgNOCName: DNS Admin OrgNOCPhone: +1-323-956-8010 OrgNOCEmail: dnsadmin@paramount.com OrgNOCRef: http://whois.arin.net/rest/poc/DNSAD155-ARIN

The text in the article shows he was working at Paramount Pictures when these edits were made. -- Nusumareta (talk) 04:54, 3 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

A lot of this was CV and pure puffery. I've done sledgehammer cleanup to those bits, but it still needs rewriting as neutral. Seraphimblade ^{Talk to me} 15:32, 3 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

More conflicts: there are anonymous edits from User:63.99.186.126. The following ARIN record shows that this net block belongs to Key Brand Entertainment:

MCI Communications Services, Inc. d/b/a Verizon Business UUNET63 (NET-63-64-0-0-1) 63.64.0.0 - 63.127.255.255 KEY BRAND ENTERTAINMENT UU-63-99-186-96-D5 (NET-63-99-186-96-1) 63.99.186.96 - 63.99.186.127