QUOTE(iii @ Thu 16th February 2012, 3:37am)
I was waiting for some drone to make
this argument:
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Putting that kind of external pressure on an article, even if he is factually correct and has sources to back up his argument, sounds like a pretty basic case of conflict of interest to me.
Is this an poor attempt at humor? It almost reads like parody.
It's a natural extension of having a belief that any knowledge of a subject disqualifies you from editing and COI is a way of expressing that. One day, we will see the combination of COI, OWN and 3RR and we will find that anyone who has made more than three edits to an article will be banned from Wikipedia for taking undue interest in what they are editing.