Andrew Gray wrote:
More seriously, they're going to do it anyway, whether we tell them to or not. We may as well encourage people to tell them how to do it effectively and without causing trouble or producing actively bad material.
It would be somewhat more effective if we didn't accuse everyone of acting in bad faith and advertising, as well. Nearly *every* article I've created on a company, none of which I've been personally involved with at all, and all of which are fairly large companies whose articles I've referenced to third-party print sources, has been tagged with something or other suggesting it be deleted. This sort of resistance to having articles on companies is one reason, I suspect, that our coverage of the area is so embarrassingly bad.
It could be helped by the new-page patrollers being a little more discerning and looking specifically for crappy, unreferenced, promotional type articles on companies, rather than just tagging every article on a company indiscriminately.
-Mark