[WikiEN-l] WP:COI violation

Wed Nov 8 20:56:15 UTC 2006

Mark Wagner wrote:

>On 11/8/06, Sam Korn <smoddy at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>On 11/8/06, Gregory Kohs <thekohser at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>I know that her edit was a trifling one, but considering all of the heat and
>>>light that's been generated in recent months about conflicts of interest,
>>>why is it that Beesley's account doesn't receive so much as a warning,
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>>Now, what kind of "warning" do you consider appropriate?  NPOV0 [1]?
>>Welcomeenpov [2]?
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>>Or perhaps you'd advocate some kind of hand-written warning?
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>>Whatever you consider the appropriate warning to give, your comment is
>>symptomatic of the terrible notion that giving a warning is a
>>punishment of some kind and should be doled out to any editor who
>>misbehaves somehow.
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>Handwritten, always.  The warning templates are almost uniformly based
>around the assumption that a warning is a punishment, rather than an
>attempt to get someone to change their behavior.
>
Hmmm.  Such warnings should only be issued by people with good penmanship.

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