On 7 January 2017 at 20:31, Jytdog at Wikipedia jytdogtemp1@gmail.com wrote:
With those companies freely (and often mockingly) advertising their services, the spigot is opened wide - they constantly get more customers and send people here to edit. I would like to know if legal is authorized to take action to cut that flow off from the top. To close the spigot.
Jytdog is not exaggerating here, by the way - this is literally what happens. I see cases of people editing using a certain username, you Google that username and you will literally see their webpage advertising their services as a Wikipedia article writer for your business. You ask them if they have a COI and they say "no". Posting the smoking gun evidence is a violation of the outing policy. I realise the extremely good reasons for our outing policies, but that doesn't make the flood of spam go away. We have an actual problem.
- d.