[WikiEN-l] "should not be written by an interested party

[Molu]

So wikipedians like me who have (unsucessfully) supported the userboxes are all bad people just clogging up the system?
   
  Molu


  Message: 6
Date: Wed, 03 May 2006 14:00:09 -0400
From: Jimmy Wales 
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] "should not be written by an interested party"
To: English Wikipedia 
Message-ID: <4458EFA9.9070700 at wikia.com>
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Steve Bennett wrote:
> Any idea how often people edit their own articles? That is, how
> frequently an outsider publicly makes it known that they are editing
> their own article? Once a day? Once a week? We could always have a
> set of processes for these situations, where users who are good with
> the kid gloves can take them by the hand and help them get the best
> out of an awkward situation. There is still the problem of becoming
> aware of these situations.

Agreed, fully, with both the problem and the general direction of a
solution.

WP:OFFICE should be a last resort, and long before we get to that point,
we need a way for non-partisan, good wikipedians, who (despite the
userboxers and myspacers clogging up the system lately) are still very
much in control of the project, to find and concentrate some very strong
brainpower on these articles.


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