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Troper with edit reason problems, possible agenda?

I discovered My Personal Rubicon after they removed the following entry from GenreTurningPoint.Video Games with no edit reason:

• Jim Sterling has referred to 2012's Clash of Clans as the most influential video game of The New '10s for the impact, both good and ill, that it had on gaming in the decade, especially mobile gaming. It popularized an exaggerated, cartoonish art style for mobile games that could look good even on the smaller screens and slower hardware of cell phones, and more importantly, it mainstreamed microtransactions as a business model for game development, as other companies — including in the console gaming space — looked at just how much money Supercell was raking in daily from Clash of Clans.

I sent an edit reason notifier and got no response. Following that, I started looking through their edits to see if they'd done this anywhere else, and in the process I may have found a possible agenda—though I could be wrong, so I won't say much more.

• Here they removed a Values Dissonance entry about feminism, but left a less-political entry up (with no edit reason),
• Here they removed part of an entry mentioning antisemitic undertones in a video game sidequest
• Here they removed mentions of a character being "the only black guy in the galaxy", and then removed an Ambiguously Bi entry with no edit reason, and
• This might not be anything, and might just be me being paranoid, but related to the aforementioned Sterling deletion, I will note that Sterling is non-binary, and has been subject to alt-right hate before, so the Genre Turning Point deletion may not be as innocuous as it seems (assuming the above four edits point to something).

Relatedly, when they have used edit reasons they sometimes complain or use a hostile tone in them too, such as here and here.

If there aren't any problems that's fine, I just wanted to bring this up here in case there was.