--- Steve Bennett stevagewp@gmail.com wrote:
On 1/18/07, Cheney Shill halliburton_shill@yahoo.com wrote:
podcasts. This is a great example of Wikipedia being abused to advertise and promote, if not straight
product
placement and shilling.
Does that harm us?
As an encyclopedia, yes. Would you trust another encyclopedia, pick whichever you like, if you knew it was being used for non-explicit/hidden advertising and promotion? Considering NPOV is the base policy at Wikipedia, the question is how does advertising & promotion within articles support that?
What if a company with more money views the article and companies mentioned within it as as competition and starts adjusting the content to promote it? Does that harm your claimed purpose for the article?
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