There's absolutely nothing you can do about the former if you're dealing with a decent writer, and very little you can do about the latter in the face of overwhelming odds. But you raised a question above that I'd like to address. I would indeed be deeply shocked if any FAC director accepted money to put an article on the main page, or any FAC delegate accepted money to promote an article, or if any editor was paid to vote in a particular way in an AfD. That would simply be corrupt, which accepting payment for the effort of writing an article is not.  Fatuorum