Steve Bennett wrote:
Any idea how often people edit their own articles? That is, how frequently an outsider publicly makes it known that they are editing their own article? Once a day? Once a week? We could always have a set of processes for these situations, where users who are good with the kid gloves can take them by the hand and help them get the best out of an awkward situation. There is still the problem of becoming aware of these situations.
Agreed, fully, with both the problem and the general direction of a solution.
WP:OFFICE should be a last resort, and long before we get to that point, we need a way for non-partisan, good wikipedians, who (despite the userboxers and myspacers clogging up the system lately) are still very much in control of the project, to find and concentrate some very strong brainpower on these articles.