G'day Cunct,
What is the policy (or information about the policy) on dealing with/reporting whitewashing or smearing by interested/paid parties? An example was http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Congressional_Staffer_Edits but it doesn't seem to be under any category... is there any kind of policy? Should there be?
Good Lord, no. We have more than enough policy.
However, this could be said to fall under our NPOV principle. And persistently violating NPOV when you know what you're doing is wrong but insist on doing it anyway is disruption, which comes under the blocking policy.
I almost don't want to justify the practice with a defense, because then it sets up a game/conflict for people to "win" at by "beating" Wikipedia. But it would be foolish to ignore what will be more prevalent as Wikipedia grows.
We've dealt with POV-pushing from Scientologists, LaRouchites, physics crackpots, right-wing loonies, left-wing loonies, gunzel anoraks, SEO proponents, and all kinds of other tragic, deformed souls. I don't see that Congressional staffers are any different.
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