On 19 September 2012 13:17, Steven Walling <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 10:08 AM, Florence Devouard <[email protected] > >wrote: > > > Hello > > > > > > Is there a place (I looked on meta and saw nothing) where the situation > > with regards to paid editing or more generally the practices toward > > declaration of conflict of interest in all linguistic versions of > Wikipedia > > summarized ? > > > > For example, I more or less know that the English version requires the > > user to not create an account with the name of his company; requires to > > basically mention when there is a potential COI; and ask preferably to > edit > > talk pages rather than directly. > > > > I more or less know that the French version does not seem to care if > > accounts feature a company name (or rather a derivative version of the > > company name); that indicating a potential COI is better; but that > directly > > editing the wikipedia page is fine. > > > > I have no idea how other languages deal with this. > > > > I was interviewed today by a "journalist" from a historian publication > and > > she asked me what was the status of this for a couple of other languages, > > in particular Spanish and Italian (I guess she knew these languages, > which > > I do not). I realized I had no idea > > > > If there is a Spanish and/or an Italian person around, I would be happy > to > > know. > > > > But more generally, would not it be interesting to gather somewhere (uh, > > meta) the current practices with regards to COIs ? > > > > Florence > > > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Conflict_of_interest_editing for a > placeholder. > > Just for the record, there's a difference between paid editing and conflict of interest editing. One can easily have a conflict of interest without receiving any financial remuneration. Risker _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
