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Universities told not to edit their Wikipedia entries

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Campus communications officials shouldn't aggressively monitor and change their university's Wikipedia page unless the entry has been “vandalized” by another editor, a Wikipedia spokeswoman said during a recent …
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Universities told not to edit their Wikipedia entries

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Campus communications officials shouldn't aggressively monitor and change their university's Wikipedia page unless the entry has been “vandalized” by another editor, a Wikipedia spokeswoman said during a recent …
Jon Awbrey
QUOTE(Newsfeed @ Thu 14th April 2011, 8:56pm) *

Universities told not to edit their Wikipedia entries

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Campus communications officials shouldn't aggressively monitor and change their university's Wikipedia page unless the entry has been “vandalized” by another editor, a Wikipedia spokeswoman said during a recent …


But, But, But …

Let's see if they're smart enough to do the syllygism on this one …

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EricBarbour
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“If you work for the university … that gives you a certain amount of bias about the topic of your university.”


O RLY?

Does that also imply that Brian Josephson should not be editing his own Wikipedia BLP?
Should Galaxy Macau workers be editing the casino's Wikipedia article?
Should City Of Dreams workers be editing the casino's Wikipedia article?
Should IBM employees be editing the company's Wikipedia article?
Should Northrop Grumman employees be editing the company's Wikipedia article?
Should Korg employees be editing the company's Wikipedia article?

Those are just examples I've run across recently. There are uncounted thousands more.
Milton Roe
QUOTE(EricBarbour @ Fri 22nd April 2011, 1:54pm) *

QUOTE
“If you work for the university … that gives you a certain amount of bias about the topic of your university.”


O RLY?

Does that also imply that Brian Josephson should not be editing his own Wikipedia BLP?
Should Galaxy Macau workers be editing the casino's Wikipedia article?
Should City Of Dreams workers be editing the casino's Wikipedia article?
Should IBM employees be editing the company's Wikipedia article?
Should Northrop Grumman employees be editing the company's Wikipedia article?
Should Korg employees be editing the company's Wikipedia article?

Those are just examples I've run across recently. There are uncounted thousands more.



Screw those. It never occurs to WMF people that it should apply just as firmly to WP's entries on WMF and WMF personnel. Of course, it doesn't.

As usual, WMF and WP feel its many rules should apply fully only to OTHER people.
thekohser
Who is going to explain this new policy to the cute brunette, Ani Vrabel, who spent a whole summer editing Wikipedia for her university?
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