phoebe ayers skrev 2014-02-20 20:16:
3) I think this proposal is trying to addressing a
long-standing issue of
COI editing. That issue was recently brought to the forefront again by the
actions of a few companies, but it's been an issue for a long while.
Please remember this is a description of the reality on en:wp. The reality looks very
different on other version.
On svwp we are a group of a few hundred active contributes where paid editors and
volunteers have a fruitful cooperation to create valuable and neutral articles. When we
have discussed this proposal on our Village Pump we think it would be good to have it as a
guideline and loose recommendation but if it would become mandatory we believe it would
actually hurt our community and work. We are not bigger than it is possible for me alone
to inspect all new articles from nonwikipedians 24/7, and react appropriate to different
problems in the articles, and recognizing patterns of "strange" edits, and
others are able to do the same for changes in articles
So please let each project decide on how to tackle the COi issue by themselves, and
encourage exchange on best practices in the area. But also make sure No mandatory
restrictions on all projects on contributers like this that would seriously harm the work
in several projects
Andes