[WikiEN-l] Yet another PR company busted ... apparently it's all our fault

[Charles Matthews]

On 12 November 2012 15:26, Thomas Morton <morton.thomas at googlemail.com> wrote:
> You misunderstand.
>
> As I mentioned: we simply have no moral high ground to criticise their
> actions. Our controls are shoddy and we defame people all over the place.
> They massage biographies etc. to cast things in a better light.
>
> Who is the good guy?

On the grounds that two hypothetical wrongs don't make a hypothetical
right, there need not be an answer to your question. On the grounds
that someone who claims to be able to fix your house or car and then
charges yo u money despite being incompetent is traditionally called a
"cowboy", the idea that WP's procedures _in cases that are not
removing defamation_ can be called "cumbersome" by PR pros rebounds on
them.

The right answer is in terms of the hourly rate PR pros can ask for.
If they need to be trained to operate properly on WP, that is what
should happen. The bar for people's reputations should be set at least
as high as for plumbing.

Note, in other words, that the "defence" of the PR editing here is
entirely deflection.

Charles