On 8/9/06, Steve Bennett <stevagewp(a)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_Technol…
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?