On 12 June 2014 15:17, Nathan nawrich@gmail.com wrote:
One reason to think its legit and not a smokescreen? Signing on to the statement substantially increases the potential costs of being caught violating WP policies. Clients hiring bare knuckles PR experts may not have a high regard for the importance of our site policies. If news gets blasted out that a firm said "We'll abide by these principles, we promise!" and then publicly fails to do so, clients might care about that more.
Yeah. Even in these dark days, journalism occasionally happens, and PR people are keenly aware of the rows of severed heads the media has stuck on spikes around its Wikipedia coverage. [*]
- d.
[*] ok, this analogy got a bit strained by the end of the sentence. However, severed heads on spikes and not wishing to join them is the main emotion here.