Jimmy Wales is the guy who founded Wikipedia. Rachel Marsden is a right-wing Canadian political pundit. She didn’t like some of the stuff that was written about her on her Wiki page and directly appealed to him to change it. He did. They got to know each other a little better. They got together. They broke up. (Well, he dumped her. On Wikipedia.) She claims it’s all his fault. She has kind of a history of bad romantic breakups and other problems playing nicely with others. Now Wales is at ground zero. It’s really starting to get good. Did I say “good”? I meant great. (I just made this my home page.)

All of which is salacious enough. But what makes the whole thing Deceiver-worthy is that it looks like Wales broke his own rules by helping Marsden in the first place. According to Wiki:

A Wikipedia conflict of interest (COI) is an incompatibility between the aim of Wikipedia, which is to produce a neutral, reliably sourced encyclopedia, and the aims of an individual editor.

COI editing involves contributing to Wikipedia in order to promote your own interests or those of other individuals, companies, or groups. Where an editor must forego advancing the aims of Wikipedia in order to advance outside interests, that editor stands in a conflict of interest.

COI edits are strongly discouraged. When they cause disruption to the encyclopedia in the opinion of an uninvolved administrator, they may lead to accounts being blocked and embarrassment for the individuals and groups who were being promoted.

Is “trying to get into the pants of a nutty Canuck talking head by deleting all the evidence of her being a serial stalker” considered an outside interest? Citation unneeded!