In a message dated 3/4/2007 9:08:15 A.M. Pacific Standard Time, guy.chapman@spamcop.net writes:
Although to be fair you were editing with a very clear conflict of interest, adding links to your own sites, and using Wikipedia to advance your external agenda. You were also distinctly rude when called on it. So it's not *terribly* surprising that you were blocked, and not actually unfair, as such. Which is not to say there are *no* unfair cases, just that yours does not seem to be one of them.
There was no pay involved. I added other nonprofit foundations besides. I have a personal interest in the topic. I don't think you could claim that Frederick Douglass couldn't talk about blacks or Jim Wales online encyclopedias for that matter. You're making an inappropriate argument, and it's an attack because of my over concern about it: I was also blocked.
I suppose you'd call donating blood a conflict of interest too - "because the American Red Cross keeps your name." Claiming conflicts of interest for whatever reason does not provide good policy.
Vincent
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On Sun, 4 Mar 2007 13:29:29 EST, Bartning@aol.com wrote:
Although to be fair you were editing with a very clear conflict of interest, adding links to your own sites, and using Wikipedia to advance your external agenda. You were also distinctly rude when called on it. So it's not *terribly* surprising that you were blocked, and not actually unfair, as such. Which is not to say there are *no* unfair cases, just that yours does not seem to be one of them.
There was no pay involved. I added other nonprofit foundations besides. I have a personal interest in the topic. I don't think you could claim that Frederick Douglass couldn't talk about blacks or Jim Wales online encyclopedias for that matter. You're making an inappropriate argument, and it's an attack because of my over concern about it: I was also blocked.
Pay is completely irrelevant. You added links to, and content in support of, an organisation in which you play a leading role. Conflict of interest. I don't think I have ever edited the articles on Wikipedia or Jimmy Wales, by the way.
Guy (JzG)
On 3/5/07, Guy Chapman aka JzG guy.chapman@spamcop.net wrote:
Pay is completely irrelevant. You added links to, and content in support of, an organisation in which you play a leading role. Conflict of interest. I don't think I have ever edited the articles on Wikipedia or Jimmy Wales, by the way.
Um, I've created a stub on a company I worked for, and added an external link to their site. The fact of creating the external link isn't the problem - the problem is adding a link when it isn't justified.
Steve