Jimbo's example is a good one. Attempts by the Chinese government to edit Wikipedia articles on China would be highly counter-productive and embarrassing for many of the same reasons that apply to an individual user.
Perhaps Scientology is willing to accept the consequences.
Fred
From: zero 0000 nought_0000@yahoo.com Reply-To: English Wikipedia wikien-l@Wikipedia.org Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 05:46:59 -0700 (PDT) To: wikien-l@Wikipedia.org Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] The Church of Scientology is discovered to have discovered Wikipedia!
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.