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Paid editing
[edit]The Committee has no mandate to sanction editors for paid editing as it is not prohibited by site policies. The arbitration policy prevents the Committee from creating new policy by fiat. The Committee does have, however, a longstanding mandate to deal with activities often associated with paid editing—POV-pushing, misrepresentation of sources, and sometimes sockpuppetry—through the application of existing policy.
Question
[edit]Hello Doc James. Sorry to disturb you, but I was wondering if you could point me to a general direction about your position and thoughts toward improving/reforming paid editing policy in order to resolve (read: defeat) paid editing in general on Wikipedia, particularly if it's undisclosed. I've been reading some of the responses to your questions back in WP:ACE2016, but I was wondering if I have missed any other archives. This is something that I would like to work on for this year. Thank you for your time. Best, Alex Shih (talk) 16:49, 4 January 2018 (UTC)
- User:Alex Shih excellent to hear your interested in taking on this work. It is not a simple problem. I view addressing undisclosed paid editing (UPE) more like locking your door, it will not prevent burglary completely but will decreases the problem (ie not convince we can eliminate UPE completely but does not mean we should do nothing).
- We have this RfC on meta that a couple of people are currently working on closing.[1] This will help use work with intermediaries like Fivver and Upworks to decrease the number of ads for UPE.
- IMO we need a group of functionaries to help address the issue. We need to be able to balance anonymity for good faith editors with our readers having a right to indepedent content. Consensus here. Greater running of CU would also be useful. UPE has a specific pattern.
- We need a list of banned companies so that those who get the solicitations can find the other side of the story. Started here
- We need to work with ORES and efforts are underway.
- User:Alex Shih excellent to hear your interested in taking on this work. It is not a simple problem. I view addressing undisclosed paid editing (UPE) more like locking your door, it will not prevent burglary completely but will decreases the problem (ie not convince we can eliminate UPE completely but does not mean we should do nothing).