I don't see any problem with Roger's position. In the one case you cited below, Roger has trespassed a DYK rule, was shouted at for violating the rule rather than his own conflict of interest, and retracted his own review.
Paid editing and editing with a conflict of interest is not forbidden by Wikipedia. All GLAM, education, and "Wikipedia town" outreach depend precisely on such premise. It only becomes a problem if such editors push their agenda in ways which violate Wikipedia policies, and such problems should be dealt according to the rule violation and independently of the conflict of interest. It is an unacceptable personal attack to use Roger's conflict of interest alone to bar his DYK reviews to other Gibraltar-related articles which he hasn't contributed significantly to or nominated. It follows that it is wrong to call for him to "give assurances that all such conflicted editing will cease immediately". Deryck On 16 September 2012 20:02, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dal...@gmail.com> wrote: > It has come to my attention that Roger Bamkin has been editing > articles on Gibraltar: > > > https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/w/index.php?limit=100&tagfilter=&title=Special%3AContributions&contribs=user&target=Victuallers&namespace=0&tagfilter=&year=&month=-1 > > and nominating and reviewing them at DYK: > > > https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/w/index.php?limit=100&tagfilter=&title=Special%3AContributions&contribs=user&target=Victuallers&namespace=10&tagfilter=&year=&month=-1 > > Since Roger is, I understand, being paid by the Government of > Gibraltar to work on GibraltapediA, I think this constitutes paid > editing. That is not strictly against Wikipedia policy (although it is > certainly frowned upon) but I'm pretty sure it is against WMUK policy > for board members or staff to edit Wikipedia in relation to chapter > activities. Since GibraltapediA is being supported by the WMUK office > (as approved in the 8 September 2012 board meeting), I think it > qualifies as a chapter activity for this purpose. > > I invite Roger to make a statement on this list explaining his > relationship with the Government of Gibraltar and how it relates to > his Wikipedia editing, and to give assurances that all such conflicted > editing will cease immediately. > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia UK mailing list > wikimediau...@wikimedia.org > http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l > WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org >
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