Hello everyone,
In past couple of weeks somehow I came in touch with few guys (SEO, Application developers, Bloggers etc) who desperately wanted an article for themselves or their company on English Wikipedia. I understand their need for advertisement, but somehow few of them just can't be convinced that WP is not the place for advertisements. In this recent quest I got to know few astonishing things. Firstly, there are companies in market who actually claim to WRITE articles for them on WP and take money for it. Second, People actually do PAY for this. If the article gets deleted then in some cases these companies give customers money back stating some crappy reason, and not clearly saying that why and how did it get removed from Wikipedia. Getting more into this I also came to know about a company which claims to build sources and reference for you which can support your article, I don't know how, but it does at least claim so.
I am sure other community members might have sometimes faced this and some of them might know something more about it. Care to share your word please? Thanks.
Arnav, we face this problem quite often. Since, WP is community based, my best suggestion is that ignore such companies/agencies.
As an editor, if you feel that something isn't fit for Wikipedia, tag it and let the community decided it's fate. If it has been deleted, let it be. Maybe then, people will understand that WP is not the right place to advertise.
On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 7:41 PM, Arnav Sonara sonara.arnav@gmail.comwrote:
Hello everyone,
In past couple of weeks somehow I came in touch with few guys (SEO, Application developers, Bloggers etc) who desperately wanted an article for themselves or their company on English Wikipedia. I understand their need for advertisement, but somehow few of them just can't be convinced that WP is not the place for advertisements. In this recent quest I got to know few astonishing things. Firstly, there are companies in market who actually claim to WRITE articles for them on WP and take money for it. Second, People actually do PAY for this. If the article gets deleted then in some cases these companies give customers money back stating some crappy reason, and not clearly saying that why and how did it get removed from Wikipedia. Getting more into this I also came to know about a company which claims to build sources and reference for you which can support your article, I don't know how, but it does at least claim so.
I am sure other community members might have sometimes faced this and some of them might know something more about it. Care to share your word please? Thanks.
-- Thanks Arnav (ricku). (User:Rangilo_Gujarati)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Rangilo_Gujarati
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On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 9:11 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan parakara.ghoda@gmail.com wrote:
Arnav, we face this problem quite often. Since, WP is community based, my best suggestion is that ignore such companies/agencies.
As an editor, if you feel that something isn't fit for Wikipedia, tag it and let the community decided it's fate. If it has been deleted, let it be. Maybe then, people will understand that WP is not the right place to advertise.
On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 7:41 PM, Arnav Sonara sonara.arnav@gmail.com wrote:
Hello everyone,
In past couple of weeks somehow I came in touch with few guys (SEO, Application developers, Bloggers etc) who desperately wanted an article for themselves or their company on English Wikipedia. I understand their need for advertisement, but somehow few of them just can't be convinced that WP is not the place for advertisements. In this recent quest I got to know few astonishing things. Firstly, there are companies in market who actually claim to WRITE articles for them on WP and take money for it. Second, People actually do PAY for this. If the article gets deleted then in some cases these companies give customers money back stating some crappy reason, and not clearly saying that why and how did it get removed from Wikipedia. Getting more into this I also came to know about a company which claims to build sources and reference for you which can support your article, I don't know how, but it does at least claim so.
I am sure other community members might have sometimes faced this and some of them might know something more about it. Care to share your word please? Thanks.
-- Thanks Arnav (ricku). (User:Rangilo_Gujarati)
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