On 8/9/06, Jimmy Wales jwales@wikia.com wrote:
I have indef banned MyWikiBiz from English Wikipedia.
If he wants to do something like this, he should write his articles independently, post them on his website, and see if interested Wikipedians who are willing to vouch for the articles... WITHOUT FINANCIAL COMPENSATION... want to include them.
Oh, dear. We have just sent out a clear message: "If you wish to get paid to write on Wikipedia, please do not use a transparent process. Please do not attempt to engage with the community, and please, whatever you do, do not tell us that you actually got paid for the article. If anyone asks, deny, deny, deny".
This guy was approaching this in exactly the right way, and the outcome was good.
Meanwhile, I'm sure lots of big companies *do* edit their own articles, but they *don't* tell us what they're doing, and we're ok with that?
Steve