[Foundation-l] Advertisements?

[White Cat]

True such a review may work but my concern is one sneaky one slipping by.
Human error happens and even if such a thing happens once its implications
would be quite severe. I was not suggesting advertisements would completely
go nuts. :)

On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 5:35 PM, Jimmy Wales <jwales at wikia.com> wrote:

> White Cat wrote:
> > 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.
>
> I take no sides in this discussion, but I would just like to note that
> this last bit is not really true.  In the unlikely event that the
> Foundation decided to take advertising in some limited fashion on the
> search results page or similar (and I should note that this is an
> interesting discussion in the community, but not something the board is
> actively interested in or considering at all) it would be quite simple
> to accept only pre-approved ads, and to mark them quite clearly as not
> part of the content, etc.
>
> There are grave and legitimate concerns about what accepting advertising
> would do to the perception of neutrality of Wikipedia, but it is worth
> noting that worst case scenarios are easily avoidable.
>
> I remain opposed to putting ads in Wikipedia.  (I have to say that in
> case anyone wants to suggest the opposite.)
>
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