On 12 July 2022, admin GeneralNotabiity (T-C-L) left this message on Lightburst's talk page:
Then on 13 July 2022, they left this message:COI
Hi Lightburst, I'm here in my capacity as a functionary. The CheckUser queue (and ArbCom) received off-wiki evidence regarding whether or not you are making conflict-of-interest edits, and what was presented pretty clearly established that you are on good personal terms with the folks in Koch Marshall Trio (enough so to raise concerns about neutrality) and also have a COI regarding Bengal cats. I can't force you to do anything, but it might be best if you just followed COI best practices in those areas - discuss changes if challenged rather than reverting, make edit requests, that sort of thing. This really is just a suggestion - take it or leave it as you see fit. (and sorry about posting this to your userpage by accident earlier...not sure how I screwed that up. Need more coffee, I guess.) GeneralNotability (talk) 21:56, 12 July 2022 (UTC)
We discussed Lightburst's identity and COI in that other thread, but just to make sure it is absolutely clear, Lightburst is James Michael Lubbad, guitar collector and bengal cat breeder. See the info on this image uploaded by Lightburst. The author is listed as "James M Lubbad". Now, technically that's incorrect since it is someone else's autograph ("Letter from the person describing a guitar that he sold"). Or see the logs for the deleted file "Paintedcats Red Star.jpg". The source said "''Previously published:'' Facebook, and on my web site paintedcats.com" (paintedcats.com is the website where James Michael Lubbad sells bengal cats). It also shows that his account was named Lubbad85 at that time. Now, I don't know the content of that email conversation, but I think GeneralNotability was somehow bamboozled by Lightburst.An apology
Hi Lightburst. This is a follow-up to what I posted yesterday. Following our conversation over email, it looks like I was too hasty in accusing you of conflict-of-interest editing, and I'm sorry that I left that mark on your record. I get things wrong sometimes, and this was one of them. GeneralNotability (talk) 14:08, 13 July 2022 (UTC)
I didn't even start this thread to complain about another case of blatant COI (and copyright concerns) being ignored by admins. I started it because I noticed that in this article about one of Paul Kossoff's guitars (created 5 September 2022 by Lightburst), the picture illustrating it isn't even the right guitar! It's a picture of the Gibson recreation of the original guitar. Lightburst has just taken the image from the Gibson website and uploaded it as an image of the original. Which is perplexing, since it's a non-free image and he could have uploaded one of the original just as easily. Any bets on whether he owns one of these reproductions and stands to benefit if they are worth more?