On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 12:29 PM, Craig Franklin <[email protected]>wrote:
> > > I was thinking more along the lines of a centralised disclosure list where > people can say "My name is X, my user account is Y, and I am doing paid > editing on article Z". Such a thing would of course invite a lot more > scrutiny on the articles in question, which would mean that they're less > likely to devolve into hagiography. From what I can see this is already > working quite well and without controversy at places like dewp. We already > have rules (on enwp at least) about promotional language, spam, > sockpuppeting, and the like; I don't see any compelling reason we need > another separate bunch of rules to deal with these situations in the > special case where someone is being paid to edit. > > this is exactly along the lines I've been thinking along, too. In the Daily Dot I was suggesting special tagging - a special flag for paid editors/accounts would allow for a much better social control of such edits (and those, who try to dodge the label would be treated like vandals/sockpuppeteers). This would address the language issues as well. dariusz "pundit" _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
