[WikiEN-l] Discrimination on Wikipedia

[charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com]

"James Hare" wrote

> If it's strongly deprecated to the point where people are banned because
> they do it, that to me sounds like it's prohibited.

It's strongly deprecated for good reasons. What is a paid editor going to do in an edit war? You see, it's all fine editing WP, until someone disagrees with you. Smart people on the wiki then act _very carefully_, knowing that one's reputation is on the line. 

Relatively smart paid editors will take everything they can get as their due, and make great difficulties about any concessions. They are being hired-gun POV pushers, in that. Non-smart paid editors will just bluster and bludgeon their way, until they are clearly in breach of policy. At best therefore we get a partisan editor of an unpopular type; at worst a typical 'ideologue'. 

The chances of getting a really good wiki-literate paid editor seem very low, in fact. There are plenty of people, apparently, who think that reading a few policy pages and being able to wikilawyer about them gives one the basics of the WP culture. They are so wrong about that.

Charles


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