On 12/09/2007, Steven Walling steven.walling@gmail.com wrote:
Honestly, it doesn't if it's "cluelessness" or not. When employees of the Miller Brewing Corporation significantly alter, or even remove altogether, content critical of their company, it is COI editing that has resulted in a slanted article. I think the idea that "they'd be smart enough to create a login" is a fallacy. If the CIA wasn't smart enough to create a login, who is?
What you're missing is that the wikiscanner *only* shows the anon edits. We don't see the ones who are logged in. And we do get plenty of edits on company articles from company users, just not in a nicely set-out and mediapathic format like the wikiscanner provides.
- d.