[WikiEN-l] "How to promote your company in Wikipedia" - pretty clueful blog post

[Ray Saintonge]

Andrew Gray wrote:
> More seriously, they're going to do it anyway, whether we tell them to
> or not. We may as well encourage people to tell them how to do it
> effectively and without causing trouble or producing actively bad
> material.
>
> (This sounds impressively like the celibacy-sex-education debate,
> doesn't it! We don't want them to, but they're going to, so let's make
> sure they do it safely...)
>
>   
Writers will be loath to declare a conflict of interest when that 
declaration unleashes a shitstorm of criticism.  Many will try to be as 
objective as they can be under the circumstances. If the result misses 
the mark it is a wiki after all, and anyone can edit it into neutrality.

Parents who want their kids to be open about their sex lives need to 
restrain the urge to condemn every sexual encounter as being in league 
with the devil. If we want openness on the part of employees writing 
about their employers we need to restrain those who perpetrate the 
ignorant lie that there is necessarily a conflict of interest.

Ec