Thanks for the link, GorillaWarfare.
I've heard comments similar to James' from others, indicating that people
have lost faith that Arbcom will investigate and take action based on
evidence of COI editing submitted in private to Arbcom. If, as you say,
Arbcom finds that investigating these reports requires a ton of work and
that investigations are prone to error, then it seems to me that we should
be looking at addressing this problem in new ways, such as my proposal that
WMF become much more active in enforcing the TOS in these kinds of
situations and in deterring this kind of misconduct.
Pine
On Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 2:26 PM, James Heilman <jmh649(a)gmail.com> wrote:
If one submits material regarding undisclosed paid
editing to arbcom and
there is no reply, it is fairly obvious that few cases would continue to be
submitted. Expecially when arbcom makes it clear they have no desire to do
this follow up.
J
On Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 11:21 AM, Sydney Poore <sydney.poore(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
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(a)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(a)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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