[Foundation-l] Mywikipediaspace

[Ray Saintonge]

George Herbert wrote:

>Would it be unethical for a business to charge $25 or $50 to add a
>requested article entry, along with a bunch of reference source links,
>but not create or edit an article directly?
>
>Are en wikipedia's notability standards appropriate still?  There are
>around 6,000 NYSE and NASDAQ listed US companies; is en-wikipedia
>WP:CORP as it stands still the right filter, or should it be somewhat
>loosened up?  Would roughly 6k companies be inappropriate in 1.5
>million total articles?  Is mere listing on a major stock exchange
>enough notability?
>
Certainly it should be enough.  Many of these companies do get write-ups 
in the financial pages of newspapers, but I'm inclined to believe that 
only a very small proportion of our editors read the financial pages.

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