Sue,
Thank you for your response, it is appreciated.
Indeed we are all n00bs at some stage, and we all make COI mistakes, and I can admit to making this mistake myself twice early on. But we all learn pretty quickly that COI editing is frowned upon, and can cause problems later on.
I would like to echo pretty much what Pete Forsyth has stated, and wholeheartedly agree that the WMF should go above and beyond what we would expect other organisations to adhere to on our projects. Whilst, Pete's suggestions on possibly policies certainly do go above and beyond what is expected in the community, they would be quite difficult to implement. So how about a simple WMF policy that states something along the lines of:
"Employees and contractors of the Wikimedia Foundation shall not edit articles relating to the Wikimedia Foundation, broadly construed, but at rather directed to raise potential edits on the talk pages of affected articles. This directive does not apply to the reverting vandalism, removing copyright violations or potentially libellous materials."
Such a directive for WMF people would be easy to make, easy to implement, easy to enforce, and would demonstrate that the Wikimedia Foundation itself is at the forefront, and setting an example for other organisations and leading by example.
Comments welcome Sue.
Cheers
Russavia