On Sun, Jul 6, 2008 at 9:51 PM, <WJhonson(a)aol.com> wrote:
Writing about your company ABC Widgits which directly
pays you, and writing
about "Cognitive Therapy" which indirectly pays you, are not similar.
No - but writing about your employer even though it's not your job to
do so is quite different from being paid to boost your company in
Wikipedia, as well.
If I were to write about my employer, I'd probably not be whitewashing
their articles, and I'm sure I'm in the majority on that.
The bigger problems about writing about one's employer are ones of
perspective and the fact that most 'insider knowledge' is not
documented on the outside & thus is useless for writing an
encyclopedia article.
That, and getting your ass fired if your boss doesn't like what you wrote.
-Matt