[could-of]

Paying to create an article is a scam:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Scam_warning

[qingcharles]

It's more nuanced than that. Wikipedia allows payments in some situations as long as they are public:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Connected_contributor...

The editor who massaged the article in question has it somewhere on his profile that he accepts payments and has a list of articles he has taken payment for.

[Gander5739]

Could you provide their username, please? I'd ba interested.