On 7 January 2017 at 20:31, Jytdog at Wikipedia <[email protected]> wrote:
> With those companies freely (and often mockingly) advertising their > services, the spigot is opened wide - they constantly get more customers > and send people here to edit. I would like to know if legal is > authorized to take action to cut that flow off from the top. To close the > spigot. Jytdog is not exaggerating here, by the way - this is literally what happens. I see cases of people editing using a certain username, you Google that username and you will literally see their webpage advertising their services as a Wikipedia article writer for your business. You ask them if they have a COI and they say "no". Posting the smoking gun evidence is a violation of the outing policy. I realise the extremely good reasons for our outing policies, but that doesn't make the flood of spam go away. We have an actual problem. - d. _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines New messages to: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
