[WikiEN-l] Bad And Wrong Policy/Procedure/Guideline

Fri Nov 3 18:19:22 UTC 2006

On 11/3/06, Gregory Kohs <thekohser at gmail.com> wrote:

> Following this policy means that:
>
> In the article about the theory of general relativity, Wikipedia would
> reject the submissions of Albert Einstein, but encourage those of a talented
> high school physics student.

We have a large, ongoing problem with companies attempting to use WP
as a promotional tool, as I'm sure you are aware, and political
operatives attempting to use WP as a campaign tool.  A policy is
helpful and useful in dealing with these issues, if only to provide a
link to paste on a spammer's page to help explain why he can't post a
link to his sales page everywhere.  I doubt that anyone would
seriously interpret this policy in a way that would reject the
contributions of a notable scientist editing articles in his field.