[WikiEN-l] Fwd: The counterattack of the PR companies

[Charles Matthews]

On 19 April 2012 15:38, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 19 April 2012 15:34, Charles Matthews
> <charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com> wrote:
>
> > Those people, who do not have WP's
> > best interests at heart, are always arguing for a disconnect between the
> > letter and spirit of policy, because they have no interest at all in the
> > spirit.
>
>
> Well, yes. The entire point of this paper is to demand a more gameable
> system.
>
>
> So the nuanced point would be that my model might need revision, if a
credible group of "Benthamites" (sorry, I'm stuck in about 1820 here)
emerged who could make the case for a new codification of policy. This
week's Signpost article on paid editing is at least a straw in the wind.

Charles