Angela wrote:
On 3/31/07, The Cunctator <cunctator(a)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.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Conflict_of_interest
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