Hoi,
I do not know if you observe when people watch watch television, but
people go to the toilet when there is an advertisement break. People
tape a program and fastforward the ads. The notion that ads provide
information is vastly overrated. Advertisements are typically ignored.
There is a website of a friend.. it has Google ads. When I feel good I
hit an add knowing that it will benefit my friend. The notion that ads
create a conflict of interest is an article of faith, it is not based in
how people perceive things in real life. When you are patch is bald, and
you want a solution AND you are lazy .. that is when an add helps you to
get Miracle-Gro. When you are smart you buy it cheaply in bulk at a
local shop and not over the Internet.
Thanks,
GerardM
TIVO is an American product .. a prove that adverts in the USA are
considered to be overly intrusive. Customers HATE ads.
James Hare schreef:
The problem with advertising on Wikipedia is that it
presents a conflict
with our real mission: to provide neutral information to the peoples. In
contrast, the goal of advertising is to feed one-sided information to people
in a very flashy way. Showing only half the picture is what leads to
conflict: people think Americans are ignorant pigdogs when there are some
very intelligent Americans. Keyword-based ads would be terrible in this
sense: in an article about fertilizers, if there is a Miracle-Gro ad, it is
giving them unfairly better representation.
Now, we could counter this by linking to the relevant Wikipedia article
-next- to the advertisment. What if something non-notable were to be
advertised? Then there would be no article...
On 1/5/07, Teun Spaans <teun.spaans(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Anthony,
>
> what, according to you, is the place to speak up?
>
> I have considered this mailinglist as the place to speak up, anywhere
> else?
>
> teun
>
> On 1/5/07, Anthony <wikilegal(a)inbox.org> wrote:
>
>> On 1/5/07, Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hoi,
>>> I want to point out to all, that it says to provide the information
>>>
> for
>
>>> free in perpetuity. It does not say anything at all about
>>> advertisements, sponsorships or whatever.
>>>
>> Yep, it sure doesn't.
>>
>> IOW, if you object to there ever being ads on Wikipedia, now is the
>> time to speak up, before the mission statement is adopted.
>>
>> Speak now, or forever hold your peace.
>>
>> Anthony