Angela wrote:
On 3/31/07, The Cunctator cunctator@gmail.com wrote:
Someone whose life is wrecked by a Wikipedia article THEY THEMSELVES CAN CORRECT has bigger problems than the entry itself.
One big problem is that this is no longer true. WP:COI prevents correction of articles by those most motivated to correct them.
Well, I wouldn't say it prevents it.
As a guideline, I think it discourages it, but if a freshly-arrived person with a conflict of interest actually corrects an article (as opposed to the more common COI-driven "improvements") I'd be very surprised if somebody undid it solely out of process worship. Especially if what they're correcting is uncited defamatory material of the sort that apparently ruins lives.
William