Two policies in conflict?
Over the past week the English Wikipedia has seen a reactivation of the controversy surrounding the intersection of two key policies: those for paid-contribution disclosure and outing. It began on 27 June 2016 with the blocking by arbitrator GorillaWarfare of Jytdog, with “outing” being the justification. Jytdog is a long-standing editor on medical topics who also works in the area of conflict of interest. The aftermath has raised a number of issues that the community is struggling to address including: who gets to decide policy, what is and is not “outing”, and whether it is permissible for Wikipedia volunteers to discuss and link to publicly posted job offers for Wikipedia PR work and the public professional profiles of writers undertaking such work.