[WikiEN-l] Is editing for payment a fundamentally problematic conflict of interest?

Marc Riddell michaeldavid86 at comcast.net
Sun Mar 4 14:31:30 UTC 2007


on 3/4/07 8:37 AM, Steve Bennett at stevagewp at gmail.com wrote:

> If a company pays someone, such as
> an employee, to edit an article on their behalf, then that's an issue
> between them. Our issue is to keep all articles NPOV, whether they
> were written on commission or not.

Yes, I agree with you.

There also seems to be, in the original argument of this thread, a desire to
yield to the larger sociocultural ethic that money is the root of all. Can't
we rise above that here?

Marc




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