Steve Bennett wrote:
On 3/13/07, Jake Nelson <duskwave(a)gmail.com>
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.
I would keep the requirements not too onerous. We *want* them to
disclose what they're doing, because they're going to do it anyway. So
ask them nicely to register themselves. Then quietly keep on eye on
them, and just revert them whenever they violate our policies,
politely.
I've been around too long not to be worried about those of our
colleagues who believe that firing squads are a pre-trial solution.
The whole idea here is that when they turn some crappy
stub into a
longer article, it may certainly be slanted towards their viewpoint.
But it's a lot easier to just deslant it, than it would have been to
write it from scratch. So we let them build it slanted - and when
they're finished, we just gently nudge it upright. They do all the
hard work. We get the benefit.
There's a lot of perfectly neutral information that companies can give
us: Who's on the Board of Directors, where they have facilities, what
they produce, technical specifications of their products, ...
Ec