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

[Ray Saintonge]

Jake Nelson wrote:

>My thought is to require a central list, and anyone who's being paid
>to edit Wikipedia needs to be registered on that list with username,
>who's paying them to edit, and the reason that they are being paid to
>do this.
>
Such a proposal is more characteristic of someone who wants building a 
mind-numbing bureaucracy to be more important than building an encyclopedia.

>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.
>
Who would be so damned foolish as to register under those circumstances?

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