Guettarda wrote:
On 3/4/07, Guy Chapman aka JzG guy.chapman@spamcop.net wrote:
On Sun, 04 Mar 2007 08:02:13 -0500, Marc Riddell wrote:
I feel you are missing my point. Why would being paid money for any contribution I made to a project make that action unclean?
Because he who pays the piper calls the tune. See my comment elsewhere in this thread: what would you do - and what would they do - if your researches showed that the CEO eats babies?
It's all a matter of how you do it. If someone asked you to write an article in a format that is acceptable to Wikipedia (wikicode, NPOV, etc.), I don't see anything wrong with them compensating you for your time. On the other hand, if someone asked you to write the article, post it under your own name, and defend it, then we have a problem. The difference is, are they asking for your service as a writer who knows how to write a WP-acceptable article, or are they trying to rent your reputation in Wikipedia? The former is no big deal, the latter is a problem.
And with that reputation comes, hopefully, a certain level of integrity. The real problems are less with the writing of an article than with its defence.
Ec