On 8/9/06, Steve Bennett stevagewp@gmail.com wrote:
One of MyWikiBiz's client's articles has been picked up by AfD. It's obviously going to be a pretty significant test case for the future of this kind of business, so it's worth while discussing it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Norman_Technolo...
My position is that Wikipedia's mission is absolutely not served by deleting this (or similar) articles. It's informative (could be more so!), it's neutral, and there are people out there looking for this kind of article. I would like to hear any arguments for deleting it.
Now, is it just me, or do we have a serious bias against corporations?
Well, there's a natural reaction to anything that looks like corporate advertising, but I wouldn't call it a "bias against corporations".
I don't see anything inherently wrong with MyWikiBiz, esp. since they are pretty open about what they're doing. But I also don't think Wikipedia's mission is served by cluttering up the place with articles on every small consulting firm in the US. This corporation has only 26 employees and the only citations are a local business journal. Is this really a significant enough company to make it into an encyclopedia?