On 24/01/07, Steve Bennett <stevagewp(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 1/24/07, David Gerard <dgerard(a)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?
Or that it's probably a really bad idea. We worked this out as a
useful way to go forward in this case.
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.
You'd think Microsoft would know better than to think this was a good
idea in the first place, but ah well. We all learn as we go.
- d.