[Foundation-l] Corporate vanity policy enforcement

[geni]

On 9/29/06, Brad Patrick <bradp.wmf at gmail.com> wrote:
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> 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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geni