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By Pantagraph staff pantagraph.com | Posted: Tuesday, May 24, 2011 6:04 pm | Loading… FARMER CITY -- Farmer City was settled by a group of nomadic farmers who simply gave up trying to find fertile soil and later was destroyed by a deadly meteor strike, ...



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[thekohser]

Wikipedia -- if we donate more money, they'll be always improving even more betterer.

Also, while medieval philosophy experts are banned, vandals who make headline news will not even be reprimanded, much less blocked.

This post has been edited by thekohser: Wed 25th May 2011, 4:06am

[thekohser]

...vandals who make headline news will not even be reprimanded, much less blocked.

So, they reprimand him, just to make a liar out of me.

[Abd]

...vandals who make headline news will not even be reprimanded, much less blocked.

So, they reprimand him, just to make a liar out of me.

Aw, AGF, Greg.

You could frame this as a demonstration that they are paying attention to you. There is no other reason for that warning at this time, the cause is obvious. Congratulations!

However, I'd say that Strikerforce should be trout-slapped, for roughing up a newbie. So, the mayor of the town edited the article, but COI guidelines don't actually prohibit that, per se, and a COI warning should have been accompanied by a thank-you for correcting vandalism. The thank-you should have come first, followed by a gentle, "by the way," be aware of conflict of interest guidelines. Please feel free to ask me if you have any questions .... etc."

My question: the account name indicates a role and should probably be interdicted. Gently, with a suggestion that the mayor set up an account, perhaps with his real name, even, and disclosing that he's mayor on his user page. He's then as transparent as he is with the name he chose, and nothing changes when there is a new mayor.

What if Wikipedia actually encouraged the mayors of small towns to register an account, openly? Indeed, COI has been misunderstood, I've long argued that. We should *encourage* COI editing, but constrain it. That is, we should protect COI accounts from charges of "POV-pushing," since a COI account can be expected to have a POV -- that's the whole point of COI! -- and we should very clearly discourage them and prevent them from revert warring or other problems (such as incivility).

[thekohser]

What if Wikipedia actually encouraged the mayors of small towns to register an account, openly? Indeed, COI has been misunderstood, I've long argued that. We should *encourage* COI editing, but constrain it. That is, we should protect COI accounts from charges of "POV-pushing," since a COI account can be expected to have a POV -- that's the whole point of COI! -- and we should very clearly discourage them and prevent them from revert warring or other problems (such as incivility).

In January 2007, I spoke on national TV about how a point of view automatically comes with expertise. Instead of embracing expertise, Wikipedia shuns it with its COI policies.