[WikiEN-l] preventing COI edits by corporations

[xaosflux]

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Exatly, many corporations provide proxied Internet access to their
staff.  Any of their employee's who know about wikipedia are bound to
come across their companies article and want to change it one way or
the other.  Some of these people may by nature of their occupation be
subject matter experts on the article and related subjects, in the
example below it could bring in [[beer]] or [[Brewing (beer)]]
experts.  If we want to come up with some sort of templated response
to them it shouldn't be one that discourages them from editing so
much as one that stresses the importance of [[WP:NPOV]] and [[WP:V]].

en:user:Xaosflux


- ----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Gerard" <dgerard at gmail.com>
To: "English Wikipedia" <wikien-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2007 3:32 AM
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] preventing COI edits by corporations


> On 12/09/2007, Matthew Brown <morven at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Bear in mind that it's quite likely that many of these edits are
>> not by people authorized to speak for the company, but rather by
>> loyal employees without management sanction.
> 
> 
> Yes. It's important to assume cluelessness rather than malice.
> 
> (Besides, if it weren't cluelessness, they'd be smart enough to
> create a login.)  
> 
> 
> - d.
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