I believe it is important for the community as a whole to have a transparent discussion around the issues of privacy and undisclosed paid promotional editing. The topic is not a single issue of enforcement but about what rules we wish to put in place and where we wish to draw the line between the various policies. I disagree with having one or two dozen editors decide things behind closed doors.
Legal at the WMF has stated "It is not a violation of the Wikimedia privacy policy for editors to post links to public information about other editors... Posting links to public information on other sites is a question of balancing this underlying principle, not a direct violation of the privacy policy. It's up to community consensus here to decide when the harassment policy should allow editors to reasonably link to public information on other sites." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Harassment#Note_from_Wikimedia_...
James
On Fri, Jul 1, 2016 at 9:24 AM, Tomasz Ganicz polimerek@gmail.com wrote:
James,
The proper body to ask this question is Ombudsmen Commission.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Ombudsman_commission
Cheers,
2016-07-01 8:47 GMT+02:00 James Heilman jmh649@gmail.com:
Hey All
On the English Wikipedia we are having a RfC regarding what is allowed
when
trying to address undisclosed paid promotional editing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Harassment#Can_other_site_accou...
Specifically we are discussing if this statement is allowed "Here we have someone who is buying an article on Anthony LaPine. They have already bought an article on HipLink and this sock created it UserJuliecameo3 who is already blocked."
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Conflict_of_interest/No...
Or are no external links to other accounts allowed to be linked to Wikipedia?
Best
James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian
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