From what I've seen on Geography articles on the English Wikipedia, it's common practice for Chambers of Commerces or Tourism Authorities to modify towns, cities, provinces, states, national parks to meet their POV needs. Generally we don't get advance notice! We should be grateful for the warning.
Cary
Waerth wrote:
Knowing a little bit about TAT practices I do not know how happy we would be ;)
Waerth
Hmm. In other words, we'll be happy that the content improve in Thai related articles :-)
Ant
Steven Walling wrote:
In other words, we're going to have to patrol Thai geography articles for promotional language and how-to sections. Great.
On Feb 6, 2008 7:13 AM, Waerth waerth@asianet.co.th wrote:
Whole story: http://www.bangkokpost.com/Business/06Feb2008_biz51.php
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