[WikiEN-l] RFC on paid editing

[Jay Litwyn]

If we only allowed unpaid editing, then disclosure would be driven 
underground. I do not think WP:COI precludes editing on topics you created, 
or [[user:Ken_Birman]] would've been blocked a long time ago, and I would 
really hate to discover that he went for sock puppets. I would *rather* 
discover that he paid one of his students to link-fill one if his articles 
on [[gossip protcol]] (currently with a definition far too loose for use) or 
[[virtual synchrony]] (needs to be contrasted with asynchrony). A lot of 
other business models feature wikipedia as a resource, and I do not think it 
is in our interests to make them hide. It is enough that we hav a WP:COI.