What is however true is that if they write it themselves, it usually
is not a very good article, and tends to leave out a lot of the
things that do make for demonstrated notability. Most commonly, it
doesn't include links to the trade magazine and newspaper article that
do exist, it uses vague adjectives instead of factual information on
market share and prominence in the industry, and emphasizes a list
of the officers of the company down to the junior vice-presidents.
Good PR people can, however, be taught to write for an encyclopedia.
It's just that they never had to do so before--they're new at it,
without the experience of people who work on Wikipedia on a range of
topics. The key advice in that posting was to start by writing on
different subjects of personal interest to get the feel of things.
On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 8:44 PM, Thedjatclubrock Enwiki
<tdjacr.wiki(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Yeah, it makes some good points, and for *most*
situations, what Ian said is
correct.
Lesson #2 — Understand the Community and Know the Rules^Number 1 Point^
--Thedjatclubrock
On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 6:10 PM, Ian Woollard <ian.woollard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
2008/7/1 David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com>om>:
http://www.e-cbd.com/zakazukhazoo/how-to-promote-your-company-in-wikipedia/
> This gets things mostly right.
I find it leaves out the truism that if people that own or work for
the company have to create the article themselves, it's very unlikely
to be truly notable. (Irrespective of whatever the policy says today).
There's a lot to be said for organic growth and shamefacedly poking
you or your company in the wikipedia is in no way organic.
- d.
--
-Ian Woollard
We live in an imperfectly imperfect world. If we lived in a perfectly
imperfect world things would be a lot better.
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