VRCWiki talk:Conflicts of interest

The current COI policy is not very interpretable

I have a concern with the current state of the conflicts of interest policy. The documentation on this policy is both lenient and vague, and I feel like this policy needs to be VRChat-ified and also give examples and what may or may not qualify as a conflict.

For instance:

1. "family, friends, clients, employers, or your financial and other relationships" should remain in the article, but we could also make room to make it more relatable, and pertinent to VRChat. Maybe instead change this to: "VRChat friends, real friends, development teams that you hold a relationship with; clients, employers, among financial and other relationships"
2. "Some VRChat users may be the only source of information for worlds, avatars, and tools. It is acceptable for those users to contribute this information." opens up a gate for content creators to unconditionally work on their own article. I feel like there should be some, but limited exception to this rule, and would rather have to status quo be something similar to: "If there is uncertainty of information, the presence of misinformation, or misrepresentation contained within in article, the primary source may need to be queried for guidance by an editor." rather than personally allowing a COI to occur.
3. Creation of an article, made directly by the world or avatar's author (or team) should never be allowed, and this would break the "Avoid advertising and use neutral language to maintain a neutral point of view (NPOV)." statement within the policy. Creation of an article is giving the content a platform to promote itself, and writing NPOV as the primary source will almost always be impossible; this will be biased.
4. We should also be linking 'good faith', 'be bold' and 'neutral point of view' policies; I recently added a COI Noticebox, and "See also" heading to this article recently. Let's proofread that too.

Thanks! DAG-XR (talk) 00:30, 13 September 2024 (UTC)

I think what's most problematic here is that its a direct copy of Wikipedia's COI page. This should've been changed much earlier to apply to VRCWiki better. Other policies also need significant updates as well for similar reasons I'm noticing. TrixxedHeart (talk) 00:43, 13 September 2024 (UTC)