On 6/19/06, Matt Brown morven@gmail.com wrote:
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.
Would it be fair to say that good faith edits on an article are to be treated with caution, and bad faith edits are outright banned? That is, if one accepts that one has a stake in an article, and agrees to edit subject to the supervision of others, one can. If, however, one insists that one has a right to edit no matter what - then one can go and jump.
Steve