Pine,
Has there been a recent substantial discussion by the community surrounding promotional/biased editting paid or otherwise, which had an outcome resulting in a specific request for assistance or increased action by the WMF?
If there hasn't, I do not see grounds for you to be expecting an official response from Legal to a list whose conversation has for the most part consisted of about 6 people?
Many others, I am sure, would rightly complain if the Foundation unilaterally made decisions in this area. But please be realistic, this is a coffee table discussion. The views expressed here are valid but the right thing to do would be to further the conversation on wiki and have a proper community conversation. We have mechanisms exactly for this kind of thing. Lets actually use them.
Seddon
On Sat, Apr 22, 2017 at 8:29 PM, Pine W wiki.pine@gmail.com wrote:
I'm bumping this thread in the hope that there will be official comments from WMF regarding their willingness to take a more assertive legal approach to addressing and deterring promotionalism and other inappropriate changes to Wikipedia content by people and organizations who have conflicts of interest, whether or not those conflicts are disclosed.
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