From: Geoff Burling llywrch@agora.rdrop.com Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] The Church of Scientology is discovered to have discovered Wikipedia! To: English Wikipedia wikien-l@Wikipedia.org Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.33.0407142137290.551-100000@joan.burling.com Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
On Wed, 14 Jul 2004, Jimmy (Jimbo) Wales wrote:
I recently told a reporter that representatives of the Chinese government are welcome to edit zh.wikipedia.org if they like. I think we can extend the same courtesy to representatives of the Church of Scientology.
I find this quite alarming. At the existing policy page [[Wikipedia:Auto-biography]] we find "editing an article about yourself or your organization is also generally considered improper and best avoided." Should we announce a change of policy now?
Zero.
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