Steve Bennett wrote:
On 3/7/06, Mathias Schindler neubau@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?
Yes.