[WikiEN-l] Almeda University paying for positive Wikipedia edits

[charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com]

"Jake Nelson" wrote

> No matter what, people will be paid to edit. The questions is whetehr
> they'll bother to tell us.... let's make a registration requirement,
> and ban the hell out of anyone who violates it, and see where that
> takes us.

Disagree. That isn't a strategy. What would be a strategy? Certainly (a) encourage corporations and others to post GFDL material about themselves, and (b) err... we need a more explicit mechanism for harvesting GFDL text and adding it to WP, but we never get to this, because people seem to think that we have to discuss 'paid editors', not the mission. But anyway we can perfectly well set up pages for listing available online GFDL text about corporations, and perfectly well allow PR people to list things on such pages.

Charles

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