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

[Guy Chapman aka JzG]

On Mon, 5 Mar 2007 09:46:55 +1100, "Steve Bennett"
<stevagewp at gmail.com> wrote:

>I find it difficult to understand how the conflict of interest
>*matters*[1]. As everyone knows, WP is full of crap. Not 100%, but
>some high proportion. The existence of crap has never bothered us
>before, and there's every reason to believe that paid, COI edits would
>still be an improvement, especially if they involve creating new
>articles.

These days we have approaching 2 million articles, creating new ones
is not an unequivocal good - the majority of new articles are
currently, by my reckoning, vanity crap.

Guy (JzG)
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