User:TParis/sandbox

Categories of volunteer editors (VE)

Category		Point of view
		neutral	advocate
Involvement	disinterested	0 no ties to subject and no personal biases	+1/ea someone with personal bias related to subject but no financial stake
	benefits from specific coverage of subject	+1/ea someone in same general category: e.g. works in same industry someone who derives benefits from publishing their opinions: e.g. personal product review site	+2/ea someone who derives benefits from publishing advocacy: e.g. newspaper columnist

Categories of paid editors (PE)

Category		Point of view
		neutral	advocate
Involvement	disinterested	0 independent watchdog group: e.g. Consumers Union	+3/ea government regulatory agency
	benefits from specific coverage of subject	+2/ea commercial product review site professor editing within scope of expertise Wikipedia community liaison for an organization	+10/ea subject or representative competitor or litigant advocacy group

Categories of Wikipedians (WP)

Category		Experience
		Novice	Experienced
Topics	Focused	+2/ea Single Purpose Accounts Tendentious Editing NPOV Violations	-1/ea Featured Article Writers Subject Matter Experts
	Generalized	+3 Novice Editors New Page Patrollers Copy editors	-2/ea Administrators Featured Articles Good Articles

Score = (VE || PE) + WP + NPOV_BLOCKS

Score
10	Paid Advocate / No interest in complying with policy
9	Paid Advocate / Only interested in complying with policy to avoid blocks
8	Paid Advocate / Interested in complying with policy
7	Paid Advocate / Complies with policy
6	Paid Editor / Edits more than one topic and complies with NPOV policy
5	Advocate / Interested more in cause, strong advocacy, wants Wikipedia to say a certain thing
4	Advocate / Project focused, strong advocacy, believes Wikipedia could be improved by coverage
3	Wikipedian / Project focused, some advocacy, edits topics outside of interests
2	Wikipedian / Project focused, little advocacy, only marginally interested in some topics of interest
1	Wikipedia / Project focused, no intentional advocacy, well rounded
0	Wikipedian / Project focused, no advocacy, complies with policy, interested in neutral encyclopedia, no advocacy