[WikiEN-l] Bad And Wrong Policy/Procedure/Guideline

[charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com]

Ray Saintonge wrote

> Why is it so necessary to have everything spelled out in such detail?  
> You are making "conflict of interest" an issue that is out of all 
> proportion to its importance.  

Hmmm. I remember some very long threads of discussion here, quite recently, about corporate interests. Are you just assuming those will go away? Isn't it more natural to assume that with every milestone Wikipedia passes, in terms of its audience, there is a corresponding increase in the number of those who will come to edit Wikipedia, without having WP's best interests at heart, because they put something else ahead of those? Think of the need to go into what we mean by that as part of the price of success in reaching a mass audience.

Charles

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