"I can't help the fact that I went to school with him. You should assume good faith as well and assume that I am already aware of COI. As for rebuttal, you are suggesting that there should be an order in which people contribute to the stub. That has no rule to back it up and other articles typically are allowed to flow without such objections. If you could find a rule stating something along the lines of what you are suggesting, I would resign entirely, but I doubt it exists. I think we've established the concept of ""weight"" means nothing in the context of a stub, so please, unless you find something, perhaps you should reconsider having a problem with the contribution. 

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