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Organizations and products became unwelcome there, learning the policies and guidelines meant nothing because like the rest of Wikipedia, anybody can edit the guidelines to suit the position du jour. I originally became involved in the biographies of living persons sections in 2012, the subjects of the biographies were not supposed to edit their own biographies, even if they were inaccurate or poorly written.
As the great recession refused to subside, I was beginning to get referrals referral inquiries and the MediaWiki Foundation posted new rules concerning paid editing rules at [[Wikimedia:Terms of Use#4. Refraining from Certain Activities|"Terms of Use#4. Refraining from Certain Activities"]] in 2014. These terms seemed reasonable enough so I took on some paid articles, mostly cleaning up inaccurate biographies. Because Wikipedia does not allow more than one editing account, the "volunteer" editors stalked both my paid work and my volunteer work making up new rules along the way. To this day, some six years after the fact, the Wikipedia is not in compliance with the Foundation's [https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alternative_paid_contribution_disclosure_policies&oldid=20445394 Terms of Use] regarding paid editing. [https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Terms_of_use/FAQ_on_paid_contributions_without_disclosure&oldid=19889839#Can_a_local_project_adopt_an_alternative_disclosure_policy_for_paid_editing? (See "1.15 Can a local project adopt an alternative disclosure policy for paid editing?")]
== Paid editing ==