sounds like a good idea actually! It can be a 'fake' advert - but it
mıght well work in putting people off posting silly articles.
Just make ıt as a test thıng - making it real is like you say - a
really really bad idea.
:-)
On Sun, 19 Sep 2004 13:40:36 -0400, Daniel P. B. Smith
<dpbsmith(a)verizon.net> wrote:
It's really, really bad. Everyone's going to
hate it.
1) Take the fact that people create vanity pages and prank pages about
their friends. Often when they come up in VfD they will even say "Sure,
remove it, I just wanted my friend to see it."
2) Add a dash of the International Star Registry and a soupçon of
Google sponsored links, and you have my really bad idea.
*** Put your friend in the encyclopedia for a week! For just $X.00! ***
Make your PayPal or credit card donation here, then email to this
address (that of a responsible sysop), giving your friend's name and
whatever you want the article to say, as long as it's decent and not
insulting. Feel free to submit as Wikimarkup if you happen to know it.
If your is unacceptable for any reason, your money will be promptly but
grumpily refunded. Otherwise, within three business days, your friend
will have a handsome article about them in Wikipedia, complete with a
garish and un-missable banner that explains that this is a Paid
Article, that the information in it is not to be trusted, and that it
will be removed by thus-and-such-a-date.
But wait, there's more! Act today, and you can also attach a .jpg image
of up to 240x320 pixels in size! NOW how much would you pay?
But email today! Sysops are standing by!
Yes, I know. I'm ashamed of myself for even thinking about it.
--
Daniel P. B. Smith, dpbsmith(a)verizon.net
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