[WikiEN-l] Viral marketing?

[Sean Barrett]

Dan Grey stated for the record:

> On 14/08/05, Andrew Gray <shimgray at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>This might be of interest to some:
>>http://www.boingboing.net/2005/08/13/bbc_punks_wikipedia_.html -
>>Wikipedia articles (now VfDed) about a fictional popstar being added
>>as part of a viral marketing campaign.
> 
> 
> The talk pages of the articles concerned do a pretty good job of
> dimissing the notion that this was some sort of viral marketing
> campaign - more a series of honest mistakes.

If it could be shown to the satisfaction of the ArbComm that it was an 
organized campaign, I would be in favor of a month-long block on the 
entire address space of the organizers, ''pour encourager les autres''. 
  We are not a blank billboard, and their graffiti is not welcome.

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