[Foundation-l] Advertisements?

[White Cat]

Right, and companies would pay big bucks to exploit us for that reason.

I'll humor you further. What about politically motivated groups that want to
buy the "advertisement" section to soapbox their political views?

Even if you randomly display the message in question reading about such a
thing on an unrelated page is not any better.

We have an ongoing election in the United States. I am sure presidential
candidates would love to use wikipedia for their smear campaigns. We have
already seen many examples of this such as edits coming from congress IPs.
Such attempts are reverted per [[WP:BLP]] which we will not be able to do to
our paying customers.

     - White Cat

On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 10:25 PM, Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hoi,
>
>   - An encyclopaedia on the Internet
>   - An Organisation publishing an encyclopaedia that needs money
>   - Eh actually it is not the organisation nor the encyclopaedia, but
>   the advertisement agency that pays for the privilege that does that ..
>
> Thanks,
>    GerardM
>
> On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 8:56 PM, White Cat <
> wikipedia.kawaii.neko at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > What kind of an encyclopedia advertises Toyoto on an article on Ford or
> > vice
> > versa?
> >
> > On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 7:07 PM, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > >
> > >
> >
> http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/03/18/googles-thin-skinned-lawyers/index.html
> > >
> > > From Google Ads terms of service:
> > >
> > > "5. Prohibited Uses. You shall not, and shall not authorize or
> > > encourage any third party to:
> > > …
> > > (xi) engage in any action or practice that reflects poorly on Google
> > > or otherwise disparages or devalues Google's reputation or goodwill."
> > >
> > > So much for NPOV.
> > >
> > >
> > > - d.
> > >
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