Wikipedia mark writing on request

Sponsored edits and authors of Wikipedia may be more conspicuous: in Meta-wiki discussion new amendment to the Terms of Use. If it will, the participants writing on request of specific companies or people ("having a potential conflict of interest"), will have to communicate honestly with others, that they work for money, and say to whom operate.

Legalized Party may one of three ways: tell us about your employer on your personal page, talk page or in the edit summary.
Who is the intended amendment is still at the discussion of the wiki community. Leave a comment on the talk page can be until March 21. Thereafter, the amendment will be submitted to the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia.

Wikipedia.org is one of the ten most visited websites in the world (the 6th place according to the rating Alexa ). The number of active users participating in the creation of Wikipedia, to January 2014 amounted to 76,000 people . Due to the large audience and to freely make changes for a long time trying to use Wikipedia as a marketing tool. There are many firms that specialize in writing encyclopedia articles for money (just try Googling "hire wikipedia editor"), and in large companies often allocate special people who describe the company itself and its products in the encyclopedia. Requirements for these items are the same as all the rest - if you edit or article vikipedicheskim satisfy the criteria of neutrality and relevance, they are left. If openly advertising content, active community members undo edit, and delete the article offered.

What is the motivation for the new amendments to the rules? Perhaps if paid by separate authors from other members of the community, the first activity will be easier to regulate. Supporters of the amendment are hoping that it will make changes to the affiliate of the author to become more visible to the reader (tools for this, however, is not), and he will be able to make a correct opinion about the subject. Opponents of the initiative are pushing the fact that such a "go to the person" will lead to the persecution of paid contributors, and all of their edits will be treated with suspicion.

Source: habrahabr.ru/post/214807/