In that case COI needs rewording to encourage the proper sort of feedback from subjects on talk pages.
Mgm
On 4/1/07, Ken Arromdee arromdee@rahul.net wrote:
On Sat, 31 Mar 2007, MacGyverMagic/Mgm wrote:
It doesn't prevent them editing such articles. It even gives them tips on how to handle it properly:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Conflict_of_interest#Editors_who_may_...
No sane Wikipedia newcomer is going to read that section and think they are permitted to fix their own article about themselves. If you squint at that section long enough, you might realize that it doesn't in fact prohibit editing where there is a conflict of interest, but this is a very non- obvious reading that is not what anyone's going to think of when the first thing the article says is that a conflict of interest is strongly discouraged. A newcomer simply will not have the sophistication to understand that "discouraged" actually means "encouraged in some cases".
Allowing people to fix errors in articles about themselves won't work unless you make it *utterly clear* that they can do so. Having an article which sounds like it says they cannot, but which upon very careful examination reveals that it is after all allowed, will not let them know.
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