Yann, the nuclear industry controversy was more the issue of control/ownership of content (which can happen on Commons, for example the news today about attempts to restrict reuse of Barack Obama's image). It is a tangent to this proposal. If you have other examples and think current project policies are insufficient, this might be worth a separate thread.
More comments welcome, but from the struggle over the meaning of words, I think doing this on-wiki will be helpful as it would separate the discussion from the proposal, which itself could be gradually refined. Much harder to cooperate on a proposal by email. :-)
Fae
On 4 April 2014 18:42, Yann Forget yannfo@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
In 2007, there was some significant conflict on the French Wkipedia, when people working for the nuclear industry edited related articles, and denied anyone without a PhD on nuclear physics any autority about this subject. Further more they refused any reference from outside the nuclear industry, specially from NGOs critical about this (i.e. Greenpeace). The result was that some articles on this subject were pure propaganda. Any mentions about incidents or accidents were systematically removed or reworded to conform to the view of this industry. These people are not paid to edit Wikipedia, so they denied having a conflict of interest. I haven't checked if the situation has changed since that time.
I would like that a situation like this being taken into account, but it may be outside the scope of your request.
Regards,
Yann
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