On 1/24/07, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
talking to the Microsoft OOXML guys. Doug Mahugh from MS is on the talk page, and does understand that editing the article himself would be a conflict of interest and the talk page is the right place to edit from.
So we've definitely settled on the idea that interested parties can't edit articles? In this case, I wouldn't actually see a problem: any person with a reputation to protect isn't going to be stupid enough to write blatantly partisan material in the spotlight of thousands of readers.
Steve