If we only allowed unpaid editing, then disclosure would be driven
underground. I do not think WP:COI precludes editing on topics you created,
or [[user:Ken_Birman]] would've been blocked a long time ago, and I would
really hate to discover that he went for sock puppets. I would *rather*
Carcharoth wrote:
*One point I don't think has been raised is that paid editing mostly
focuses on living people and contemporary organisations. I can't
actually think of examples of paid editing that don't involve
biographies of living people ([[WP:BLP]]) or corporate companies
([[WP:CORP]]),
Carcharoth wrote:
*One point I don't think has been raised is that paid editing mostly
focuses on living people and contemporary organisations. I can't
actually think of examples of paid editing that don't involve
biographies of living people ([[WP:BLP]]) or corporate companies
([[WP:CORP]]),
We are all free to contact our congressional representatives, but
professional lobbyists are much more effective, as professional pubic
relations representatives would be with respect to Wikipedia content.
Fred
Regular editing is problematic to some degree as well. What we lose is
flattery we
I don't have a congressional representative, thank you very much...
Nor do I. :)
AGK
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In practice, however, it would be exceedingly rare for that type of editing
to not be problematic to some degree; the nature of the business world is
such that paid editing would almost certainly not adhere to Wikipedia's NPOV
policies. Consider this: if
On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 11:35 PM, Andrew Grayandrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk wrote:
2009/6/10 AGK wiki...@googlemail.com:
In practice, however, it would be exceedingly rare for that type of editing
to not be problematic to some degree; the nature of the business world is
such that paid editing
On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 1:32 AM, Sam Kornsmo...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 11:35 PM, Andrew Grayandrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk
wrote:
2009/6/10 AGK wiki...@googlemail.com:
In practice, however, it would be exceedingly rare for that type of editing
to not be problematic to some
Actually we also get bookspam. The classic version of this is an IP turns
up at a watchlist making one edit to an article to add an item to the
references section. Check the IP history and it makes one edit each to a
lot of different articles, each adding a book reference but not building the
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/Paid_editing
- d.
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