From: Geoff Burling <llywrch(a)agora.rdrop.com>
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] The Church of Scientology is discovered to
have discovered Wikipedia!
To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l(a)Wikipedia.org>
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0407142137290.551-100000(a)joan.burling.com>
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On Wed, 14 Jul 2004, Jimmy (Jimbo) Wales wrote:
> I recently told a reporter that representatives of the Chinese
> government are welcome to edit
zh.wikipedia.org if they like.
> I think we can extend the same courtesy to representatives
> of the Church of Scientology.
I find this quite alarming. At the existing policy page
[[Wikipedia:Auto-biography]] we find "editing an article about
yourself or your organization is also generally considered
improper and best avoided." Should we announce a change of
policy now?
Zero.
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