[WikiEN-l] Incoming!!!

[Steve Bennett]

On 3/7/06, Mathias Schindler <neubau at presroi.de> wrote:
> See http://www.micropersuasion.com/2006/03/marketing_and_w.html for
> details. I consider the word "marketing" misleading. There is no reason
> why companies shouldn't update information about themselves in wikipedia
> if they have a source and if they follow the NPOV and other wikipedia
> policies.

I agree. That would make a great news story. "Company complains:
Anyone can edit our article on Wikipedia - except us".

> [[de:Siemens AG]]'s financial figures for 2005 were updated from IPs
> from within Siemens. This is fine and not "marketing".

As long as they do it transparently.

Is it time we updated [[WP:AUTO]] to cover corporate entities?

Steve