Quick summary of what happened next for anyone who comes across this thread in the future: Under pressure from outside, the wikipedia admins decided to reopen

Quick summary of what happened next for anyone who comes across this thread in the future: Under pressure from outside, the wikipedia admins decided to reopen this case. They fairly quickly came to consensus that Cross was violating the paragraph of the biography-of-living-persons-conflict-of-interest policy quoted above and banned him from editing Galloway's article. There's continuing discussion of whether Cross is doing anything more seriously wrong.