Jake Nelson wrote:
My thought is to require a central list, and anyone who's being paid to edit Wikipedia needs to be registered on that list with username, who's paying them to edit, and the reason that they are being paid to do this.
Such a proposal is more characteristic of someone who wants building a mind-numbing bureaucracy to be more important than building an encyclopedia.
No matter what, people will be paid to edit. The questions is whetehr they'll bother to tell us.... let's make a registration requirement, and ban the hell out of anyone who violates it, and see where that takes us.
Who would be so damned foolish as to register under those circumstances?
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