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It's all part of their various horseshit attempt at making something which is pretty simple an innocuous into something that it isn't.
Within the last few days, it looks like someone raised the issue on this guy's page, the arbitration committee is getting in touch with him, and he's saying he'll get back to them. Presumably there's a minor conflict of interest and they'll look over the article and make sure he didn't do anything slanty to it and then tell him to stay away from COI-adjacent articles in the future.
There's absolutely nothing sinister here, and they are stringing together a bunch of misleading stuff (like "mostly PR") to make a mountain out of a molehill to discredit Wikipedia. I've noticed a bunch of people doing this, presumably there is some organized campaign which actually is sinister in the way they're implying WP is, that is trying to make people think badly of them.
It’s not happening in a vacuum. Elon Musk has made an enemy of Wikipedia.