On 01/05/06, Cheney Shill halliburton_shill@yahoo.com wrote:
I agree with Steve's definition of an interested party. In this context, that would basically apply to people who's jobs directly or indirectly depend on a political party's success. Politicians, fund raisers, a PR company that does most of its business for a party, a business that receives billions in goernment contracts. WIki has a nice article that covers most of this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conflict_of_interest
Actually I don't think we have a problem with people editing articles even if they do have a conflict of interest. It's better if they declare that conflict, of course. People editing articles about *themselves* seems to cause the most problems though, because they take changes so personally, and insist that they know themselves better than any published source could...
Steve