[Foundation-l] We really need to avoid the next Microsoft-Wikipedia bad publicity storm

[David Gerard]

On 01/02/07, Mohamed Magdy <mohamed.m.k at gmail.com> wrote:

> Could the answer be in adding another line just above the save button?
> explaining the idea to the editor and telling him/her that there is a
> conflict of interests and if you wish to add content to the article, add
> it to the talk page instead? and if you have more to say, add a link too.


There's so much visual noise on the edit page already that it's likely
to be ignored, I fear.

(Mind you, the MediaWiki user interface needs all sorts of attention.)

[I'm going to have to learn to code, aren't I.]


- d.