"As Wikimedia projects have risen in prominence across the world, it has attracted increasing attention of those who would like to control the information published on it, for political or other reasons."

Not that curtailing conflicting interests where possible is wrong, but "a number of users with close connections with external parties... editing the platform in a coordinated fashion to advance the aim of those parties" echoes the Wikimedia Foundation's behavior in recent years, or tacit acceptance thereof.