On Oct 12, 2007, at 11:05 AM,
<charles.r.matthews(a)ntlworld.com>
<charles.r.matthews(a)ntlworld.com> wrote:
Phil Sandifer wrote
Conflicts of interest seem the more sensible ones
to rule out. Our
rules against POV pushing already go against the worst problems of
conflicts of interest, making the CoI rule something that mostly
forbids good editing.
It's a guideline. I have constantly emphasised how good a piece of
advice it is not to get into COI editing. People without WP
experience really have no idea what a daily rund of edit war will
do to them. We are not going to withdraw that advice. Let alone say
paid PR people on the site are OK.
It's great advice. And paid PR people are not OK. But, frankly,
they're not OK in the same way sockpuppets aren't OK. It's not that
you're not allowed to do it, it's just that you're not allowed to do
it so badly that we notice and go "Oh for fuck's sake."
Right, COI editing, POV pushing, sockpuppetry, it's all fine as long
as it doesn't annoy certain people.
That's precisely the problem being pointed out by so many of the so
called attack sites.