Thanks, Molly. I encouraged people interested in understanding the different views on the topic as it relates to Wikipedia English (and perhaps other wikis) to read this discussion.
Sydney
Sydney Poore User:FloNight Co-founder Kentucky Wikimedians, Co-founder WikiWomen User Group, Co-founder WikiConference North America Board member of Wiki Project Med Foundation, Member of Simple Annual Plan Grant Committee
On Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 2:11 PM, GorillaWarfare < gorillawarfarewikipedia@gmail.com> wrote:
Following up, this is the conversation I was remembering: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Harassment/Archive_11
– Molly (GorillaWarfare)
On Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 11:59 AM, GorillaWarfare < gorillawarfarewikipedia@gmail.com> wrote:
Pine,
We quite rarely receive requests to look into suspicions of paid editing based on private information. We have historically been reluctant to act
on
them for a number of reasons: it's very prone to error, it's often an incredible amount of work, and we open ourselves up personally to legal risk by doing so. I believe there was some discussion on this onwiki
around
six months ago, I will try to dig up a link.
– Molly (GorillaWarfare)
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