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

[Bartning at aol.com]

In a message dated 3/4/2007 4:42:06 P.M. Pacific Standard Time,  
william at scissor.com writes:

Just to  be clear, I'm not against paying honest and conscientious 
Wikipedians to  edit. What I am opposed to is accepting editorial 
conflicts of  interest.

So if, say, the Ford Foundation wants to pay a dozen  historians to write 
historical articles, I'm all for it. Right up to the  point where they 
edit anything on the Ford Foundation or its  funders.
Current rules remain unclear about policies.  I only hear about paid  
corporations and nonprofits that also edit pages.  However, one criticism  involves 
Wikipedia being too commercial and actually asking corporations to put  their 
logos on articles about them.