[WikiEN-l] MyWikiBiz

[The Cunctator]

On 8/11/06, Steve Bennett <stevagewp at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 8/9/06, Ed Sanders <ejsanders at gmail.com> wrote:
> > His business model still works if the material he writes get used on
> > Wikipedia - the agreement just means now he won't upload it unless we
> > approve it first... as far as I understand it.
>
> I don't like this middle ground at all. We need to be firmly either
> *for* or *against* paid editing. If we equivocate as we currently do,
> then you'll have people figuring out which articles are coming through
> this process and AfDing them all "because Jimmy said it was a conflict
> of interest". Either welcome it or ban it - where the hell do we stand
> right now?

Why do we have to have a clear position? I much prefer a society
primarily made of equivocators than ideologues.

I don't see paid editing as necessarily sullying the editing in any way.

There's no need to be anti-capitalist.