On 04/03/07, Marc Riddell michaeldavid86@comcast.net wrote:
We seem to have strayed from Jaap Vermeulen's original inquiry. I still support his ability to receive compensation for his editing. As always, I am going to assume good faith.
Paid editing on a given topic has been deemed verboten previously. Paid editing in general may be more acceptable, e.g. there's a lot of people on very tiny Wikipedias being paid to write anything at all - but there's no colour of COI in that.
But if someone is being paid to write on a given topic, I find it difficult to understand how that's *not* a conflict of interest.
- d.