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

[David Gerard]

On 04/03/07, Guy Chapman aka JzG <guy.chapman at spamcop.net> wrote:

> No articles should be written on commission.  I believe Jimbo Has
> Spoken on that issue.


No articles should be written on commission from the subject of the
article (or where a COI could exist). If MarvellouslyNiceCorp were to
pay me a living wage to write Wikipedia articles, I'd go for it like a
shot ... on every subject that wasn't even tangentially related to
MarvellouslyNiceCorp.


- d.