On 6/18/06, Alphax (Wikipedia email) alphasigmax@gmail.com wrote:
People identifying the company they work for shouldn't be editing the article on that company, per [[WP:AUTO]] and [[WP:CORP]].
If that's what those articles currently say, they're wrongheaded. WP:AUTO, last I looked, discouraged (but did not ban) editing an article on oneself.
One should exercise caution when editing articles on subjects one has a personal stake in, yes. Newbies should be discouraged from doing so, although not too forcibly. There are many problems with editing such an article, of which POV-pushing is the least of it. More of a problem is verifiability: if you work at a company, you are likely to write using non-public sources about it, including personal experience.
An experienced editor familiar with sourcing can do good work on an article on a subject they are associated with.
-Matt