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Exatly, many corporations provide proxied Internet access to their staff. Any of their employee's who know about wikipedia are bound to come across their companies article and want to change it one way or the other. Some of these people may by nature of their occupation be subject matter experts on the article and related subjects, in the example below it could bring in [[beer]] or [[Brewing (beer)]] experts. If we want to come up with some sort of templated response to them it shouldn't be one that discourages them from editing so much as one that stresses the importance of [[WP:NPOV]] and [[WP:V]].
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- ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Gerard" dgerard@gmail.com To: "English Wikipedia" wikien-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2007 3:32 AM Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] preventing COI edits by corporations
On 12/09/2007, Matthew Brown morven@gmail.com wrote:
Bear in mind that it's quite likely that many of these edits are not by people authorized to speak for the company, but rather by loyal employees without management sanction.
Yes. It's important to assume cluelessness rather than malice.
(Besides, if it weren't cluelessness, they'd be smart enough to create a login.)
- d.
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