On 7 January 2017 at 20:31, Jytdog at Wikipedia <jytdogtemp1(a)gmail.com> wrote:
With those companies freely (and often mockingly)
advertising their
services, the spigot is opened wide - they constantly get more customers
and send people here to edit. I would like to know if legal is
authorized to take action to cut that flow off from the top. To close the
spigot.
Jytdog is not exaggerating here, by the way - this is literally what
happens. I see cases of people editing using a certain username, you
Google that username and you will literally see their webpage
advertising their services as a Wikipedia article writer for your
business. You ask them if they have a COI and they say "no". Posting
the smoking gun evidence is a violation of the outing policy. I
realise the extremely good reasons for our outing policies, but that
doesn't make the flood of spam go away. We have an actual problem.
- d.