[WikiEN-l] "should not be written by an interested party"

Tue May 2 20:22:06 UTC 2006

Vocal opponents in some situations may be "interested parties", such as:

- engaged in legal proceedings with the subject of the article
- "professional" critics whose only notability (if any) is that they  
are critics of the subject of the article
- people that run or manage a website or blog whose only purpose is  
to oppose, detract, or criticize the subject of the article

Nevertheless, I would point out that "interested parties" are only  
encouraged not to edit articles, not prohibited from doing so.  
Providing that an editor abides by the content policies of Wikipedia  
and he/she does that with civility, his/her edits should be welcome.

-- Jossi

On May 1, 2006, at 9:58 AM, Steve Bennett wrote:

> A vocal opponent is not an interested party. An interested party is a
> party with, well, an interest in the matter, like a shareholder,
> employee etc. For Wikipedia purposes, you can pretty much consider
> interested party to mean the party itself.