[WikiEN-l] Wikipedia:Paid editing

[stevertigo]

On 3/11/07, geni <geniice at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Sometimes it is useful to have a clear stick to beat people with.
> Rather than trying to figure out exactly which line they have been
> playing on the edge of they have crossed over.


Hard to disagree with the stick approach. But thats only if its clear what
their being beaten over the head for: Being paid? (in which case we just
might never know). Or violating the rules? In which case those rules would
be the ones cited, not WP:PAY. PAY has to be advisory, to get people to do
what the MS guy did which was to fully disclose.

Maybe it would be better to think of PAY as an accusative sort of thing:
    "Your consistent bucking of our rules suggests you are probably a paid
shill.
    We will muster our formidable resources to determine if this is true."
         "How dare you accuse me of being a shill!"
     "If the shoe fits buddy."

-Stevertigo