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 will gain in accuracy & completeness. It is much easier to > revise an article to remove the puffery that to supplement an > inadequate article. > > How many articles as submitted actually comply with all WP > requirements? The power of WP is the open group editing, and this > would not be compromised. > > > David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S. > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DGG > > > > On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 6:44 AM, AGK<[email protected]> wrote: >> In principle, I welcome editors who create or expand an article for >> payment >> (inasmuch as their editing complies with the project's guidelines). >> 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 a client commissions a Wikipedia article's >> creation, would the client be satisfied with an article that did not >> reflect >> a stance that was at least a smidgen flattering? I wouldn't imagine so. >> On >> that basis, I think a blanket discouragement from editing for payment >> to be >> the most sensible approach to the issue. >> >> AGK >> _______________________________________________ >> WikiEN-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l >> > > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
