2006/10/6, Jimmy Wales <jwales(a)wikia.com>om>:
Now imagine that someone sets up a website that
strongly implies that
paying him will get a company a good article in Wikipedia, and follows
that up by posting blatant PR puffery and claiming that it is NPOV.
That's a very serious problem, especially in an era when we are seeing
increasing attention paid to "how to manipulate wikipedia for the good
of your client" by the lower dregs of the PR industry.
The scary thing is... This already exists. Maybe I should have
notified the list or the board or whoever before, but having a
GoogleNews subject 'Wikipedia' gave me a link to the following
advertisement-thinly-disguised-as-press-release shortly before the
Wikimania conference:
http://www.24-7pressrelease.com/view_press_release.php?rID=16892
I checked
http://www.mywikibiz.com and they do indeed claim to be in
business, charging $49 for a stub, $79 for a full article and $99 for
a full article with some extras... Then again, checking
[[en:User:MyWikiBiz]] tells me you already were notified of this
recently.
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