Jimbo's example is a good one. Attempts by the Chinese government to edit
Wikipedia articles on China would be highly counter-productive and
embarrassing for many of the same reasons that apply to an individual user.
Perhaps Scientology is willing to accept the consequences.
Fred
From: zero 0000 <nought_0000(a)yahoo.com>
Reply-To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l(a)Wikipedia.org>
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 05:46:59 -0700 (PDT)
To: wikien-l(a)Wikipedia.org
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] The Church of Scientology is discovered to
have discovered Wikipedia!
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.