[Foundation-l] Corporate vanity policy enforcement

[David Gerard]

On 29/09/06, geni <geniice at gmail.com> wrote:

> As soon as you add a link to an existing article you are more likely
> to be noticed by a wikipedian who knows the area. Ever look at how
> many prod, speedies and ADFs are orphans?


It'd be quite a major move to have to close off new articles to that
extent just because of marketers.


> Just because someone is acting in good faith it doesn't mean that they
> are doing something that we want them to do.


I spent 1.5 hours this afternoon talking to a journalist. About 20
mins of that was him complaining at length that the bureaucracy is too
damned intimidating for newcomers as it is. (I proceeded to more or
less reiterate [[:en:Wikipedia:Process is important]], which I'm sure
those of you who consider me a hack'n'slash enemy of process would
find most amusing.)

I'd suggest that if we want better behaviour from newbies, we need to
make things suck less for the good ones (like this guy) - the crap
newbies will not be stoppable by any force of clue. You watch.

And remember: most text appears to be written by newcomers and
occasional editors, not the regulars. (Numbers not firm on this one
per AaronSw, but I understand others are checking his work.)


> There are various tricks
> (marketers appear to be rather found of our no comercial use lisence
> option on images for example) which could be used to target marketers
> but then it gets complex.


See, that's the sort of thing we're good at. Be open to input from
all, even if a tweaked vandal-checking bot puts it in a patrolling
admin's "#redirect [[round file]]" list.


- d.