On 11/3/06, Gregory Kohs thekohser@gmail.com wrote:
Following this policy means that:
In the article about the theory of general relativity, Wikipedia would reject the submissions of Albert Einstein, but encourage those of a talented high school physics student.
We have a large, ongoing problem with companies attempting to use WP as a promotional tool, as I'm sure you are aware, and political operatives attempting to use WP as a campaign tool. A policy is helpful and useful in dealing with these issues, if only to provide a link to paste on a spammer's page to help explain why he can't post a link to his sales page everywhere. I doubt that anyone would seriously interpret this policy in a way that would reject the contributions of a notable scientist editing articles in his field.