[WikiEN-l] preventing COI edits by corporations

[David Gerard]

On 12/09/2007, xaosflux <xaosflux at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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]].


Better yet, do nothing broad and mechanical like this in the first
place. If they're of good faith and cluifiability they'll get the idea
soon enough. If they're not one of those two they won't understand or
won't care.

Guidelines directed at anyone who isn't of good faith *and* cluifiable
are a waste of breath and show a fundamental misunderstanding.


- d.