On 24/01/07, Steve Bennett stevagewp@gmail.com wrote:
On 1/24/07, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
talking to the Microsoft OOXML guys. Doug Mahugh from MS is on the talk page, and does understand that editing the article himself would be a conflict of interest and the talk page is the right place to edit from.
So we've definitely settled on the idea that interested parties can't edit articles?
Or that it's probably a really bad idea. We worked this out as a useful way to go forward in this case.
In this case, I wouldn't actually see a problem: any person with a reputation to protect isn't going to be stupid enough to write blatantly partisan material in the spotlight of thousands of readers.
You'd think Microsoft would know better than to think this was a good idea in the first place, but ah well. We all learn as we go.
- d.