On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 10:30 AM, Ken Arromdee <arromdee(a)rahul.net> wrote:
If anything, it's worse for companies. Nobody
tells BLP subjects that
because they have a COI, they can't even remove incorrect statements
about themselves.
A fair point.
I liked Andreas's way of putting this earlier:
Positive bias and advertorials *can* be odious, but
activist editing with a
negative bent has traditionally been the greater problem in Wikipedia, in
my view, and is the type of bias the Wikipedia system has traditionally
favoured. Not doing harm is, in my view, more important than preventing
the opposite.
Sam.