On 6/19/06, Matt Brown <morven(a)gmail.com> wrote:
One should exercise caution when editing articles on
subjects one has
a personal stake in, yes. Newbies should be discouraged from doing
so, although not too forcibly. There are many problems with editing
such an article, of which POV-pushing is the least of it. More of a
problem is verifiability: if you work at a company, you are likely to
write using non-public sources about it, including personal
experience.
An experienced editor familiar with sourcing can do good work on an
article on a subject they are associated with.
Would it be fair to say that good faith edits on an article are to be
treated with caution, and bad faith edits are outright banned? That
is, if one accepts that one has a stake in an article, and agrees to
edit subject to the supervision of others, one can. If, however, one
insists that one has a right to edit no matter what - then one can go
and jump.
Steve