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

[The Cunctator]

On 3/11/07, Oldak Quill <oldakquill at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10/03/07, William Pietri <william at scissor.com> wrote:
> > Note in particular the endless self-justification in the Almeda
> > approach. I think that will undermine any attempt to find clever rules
> > that allow paid editing where there is even the slightest possibility of
> > conflict of interest. I'm sure any of us could rewrite that job
> > description to make full use of Wikipedia jargon. And if somebody's
> > income depends on them not getting the essential meaning behind our
> > words, they may be able to keep it up for quite a while.
>
> One problem I have with this kind of paid editing is that those who
> can afford to pay will have more NPOV, better written articles. Do we
> want the quality of parts of Wikipedia to be determined by who's
> paying for what?

Dirty hippy communist.