[WikiEN-l] let's be honest then

MacGyverMagic/Mgm macgyvermagic at gmail.com
Sun Apr 1 09:27:15 UTC 2007


In that case COI needs rewording to encourage the proper sort of feedback
from subjects on talk pages.

Mgm


On 4/1/07, Ken Arromdee <arromdee at rahul.net> wrote:
>
> On Sat, 31 Mar 2007, MacGyverMagic/Mgm wrote:
> > It doesn't prevent them editing such articles. It even gives them
> > tips on how to handle it properly:
> >
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Conflict_of_interest#Editors_who_may_have_a_conflict_of_interest
>
> No sane Wikipedia newcomer is going to read that section and think they
> are
> permitted to fix their own article about themselves.  If you squint at
> that
> section long enough, you might realize that it doesn't in fact prohibit
> editing where there is a conflict of interest, but this is a very non-
> obvious reading that is not what anyone's going to think of when the first
> thing the article says is that a conflict of interest is strongly
> discouraged.
> A newcomer simply will not have the sophistication to understand that
> "discouraged" actually means "encouraged in some cases".
>
> Allowing people to fix errors in articles about themselves won't work
> unless
> you make it *utterly clear* that they can do so.  Having an article which
> sounds like it says they cannot, but which upon very careful examination
> reveals that it is after all allowed, will not let them know.
>
>
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