Hoi, I am amazed at this terminology that is such that I do not understand at all what you try to say. Thanks, GerardM
On 9/29/06, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
On 9/29/06, Brad Patrick bradp.wmf@gmail.com wrote:
Brad Patrick wrote:
Dear Community:
The volume of corporate vanity/vandalism which is showing up on Wikipedia is overwhelming. At the office, we are receiving dozens of phone calls *per week* about company, organization, and marketing edits which are reverted, causing the non-notable, but self-aggrandizing authors, to scream bloody murder. This is as it should be. However, I am issuing a call to arms to the community to act in a much more draconian fashion in response to corporate self-editing and vanity page creation. This is simply out of hand, and we need your help.
Srticles are only one problem. There are aparently people prepared to pay money to people ho can get links into wikipedia.
We are the #14 website in the world. We are a big target. If we are to remain true to our encyclopedic mission, this kind of nonsense cannot be tolerated. This means the administrators and new page patrol need to be clear when they see new usernames and page creation which are blatantly commercial - shoot on sight. There should be no question that someone who claims to have a "famous movie studio" and has exactly 2 Google hits - both their Myspace page - they get nuked. Ban users who promulgate such garbage for a significant period of time. They need to be encouraged to avoid the temptation to recreate their article, thereby raising the level of damage and wasted time they incur.
This would be covered by CSD a7 for the most part.
Some of you might think regular policy and VfD is the way to go. I am here to tell you it is not enough. We are losing the battle for encyclopedic content in favor of people intent on hijacking Wikipedia for their own memes. This scourge is a serious waste of time and energy. We must put a stop to this now. Thank you for your help.
Afd. In theory prod/CSD should take care of most of it. Problem is that figureing out the notibility or whatever of companies is a pain in the neck since most of us don't have a vast amount of experence in that area.
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