Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Best practice guidelines for Public Relations professionals

Do we approve the WMUK/CIPR guidelines to Wikipedia paid editing for Public Relations professionals? WMUK link

In 2012, Wikimedia UK in partnership with the Chartered Institute of Public Relations, created best practice guidelines intended for PR companies to use as a guideline for paid editing on the English Wikipedia. The document has been draft on the Wikimedia UK website for 18 months, and has yet to have a demonstrable consensus with Wikimedia UK members or with the English Wikipedia editing community.

CIPR and PR companies have been referencing this document as standard guidelines for paid editing, and this has been presented by CIPR as an agreement with the community in the international press, examples can be found at Wikipedia and PR resources. For this reason, I would like to bring these guidelines for a definitive community agreement, or rejection, on the English Wikipedia. When agreed, I propose this document becomes maintained on this project rather than on the UK chapter wiki. --Fæ (talk) 11:27, 24 October 2013 (UTC)

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 * Oppose: I support Wikipedia's effort to reach out to PR agencies and educate them. While there are some good informational points on the source documents, this appears to be another effort to ban paid editing.  Chris Troutman  ( talk ) 06:00, 17 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Support, these guidelines cite many industry and global ethics guidelines, and are a good guide to what a commercially paid editor on Wikipedia should do. This does not ban commercial editing in the sense that it makes commercially paid editors unwelcome altogether, but does establish a best practice for them, that of strictly sticking to the talk page except for a few obvious and uncontroversial cases. We should welcome commercial editors' input, but only with full COI disclosure and with vetting by neutral editors. The "Keep to the talk page, disclose, and request edits from others" principle does this quite well. Seraphimblade Talk to me 00:55, 18 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Support - this is the best proposal I've seen recently. Bearian (talk) 20:42, 18 November 2013 (UTC)

Plain and simple COI guide
See Plain and simple conflict of interest guide.Leutha (talk) 13:53, 25 October 2013 (UTC)

No paid advocacy
See No paid advocacy Leutha (talk) 13:58, 25 October 2013 (UTC)