g'day all :-) - this 'what a policy page might look like' type draft is interesting... I think the tone is off in a few places - is it ok to edit? Also I have a quick question in this quieter corner of the wiki.... if a company (for example one of the 'virgin' ones) ran a competition to improve wiki coverage of an event (say the 'V Festival') in return for prizes (say 'tickets') - is that cool? Would such a policy apply to those who wish to enter? This isn't either a rhetorical or hypothetical question really, btw :-) Privatemusings ( talk) 09:58, 18 June 2009 (UTC)
Now that Wikipedia:Paid editing (policy) and Wikipedia:Paid editing (guideline) are both [1] tagged [2] as failed proposals, perhaps it is a good time to restart some discussion here. I think this draft is a very good start. Eclipsed (talk) (code of ethics) 12:16, 20 November 2010 (UTC)
This draft should include some help about how to disclose a COI on Wikipedia. For example:
etc. Thanks. Eclipsed (talk) (code of ethics) 14:39, 20 November 2010 (UTC)
I'm often a COI contributor and would like very much to contribute to this. I've been writing Wikis with a COI for almost four years now and educated dozens of marketers on appropriate behavior on Wikipedia. This article is very similar to my own statement of ethics and related to a blog post I wrote on Why Wikipedia Needs Marketers where I was pointed here by FT2.
This is an issue near and dear to my heart; one I live and breathe every day. I have so much to contribute on this topic, I don't even know where to start. You can see on my Talk Page that despite being a COI editor the community appreciates and thanks me for my contributions. I've made exceptional contributions to Wikis on big companies like Edelman and Xilinx, former politician Matthew S. Collier as well as smaller but notable companies like Apriso, 8coupons and NetBase Solutions, Inc.. I often uphold my ethics by consulting clients not to touch controversial content, remove factual content that's unfavorable or create Wikis that lack notability.
I have so much to contribute on this topic, I'm not sure where to start. Is this draft ok to edit/add to? Would my contributions be welcome? Do you want someone from the other side of the pond or do you feel the volunteer community should write this?
King4057 ( talk) —Preceding undated comment added 20:25, 1 December 2011 (UTC).
This policy should also include changes made by people with a WP article. If one has a Wikipedia article about themselves one should be able to edit it under the same provisions as for edits by company representatives. There often are complaints from people who find their WP article full of inaccuracies and get reverted if they change it under their own name (leaving these people only the option of making edits under an anonymous account if they can't get consensus on the talk page). SpeakFree (talk)( contribs) 22:04, 6 December 2011 (UTC)