QUOTE(EricBarbour @ Fri 22nd April 2011, 1:54pm)
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“If you work for the university … that gives you a certain amount of bias about the topic of your university.â€
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.