[WikiEN-l] More about PR firms

[Kelly Martin]

On 8/22/06, Sheldon Rampton <sheldon at prwatch.org> wrote:
> Preventing this sort of thing from happening on Wikipedia would
> require a policy that forbids people who work for PR firms not only
> from editing articles about their clients, but also from editing
> articles about any topics of potential interest to their clients. A
> policy of this nature would be so vague that it would be a nightmare
> to enforce -- especially since many PR firms do not disclose their
> client lists.

I'd just as soon block the PR firms entirely. Maybe once they get some
semblance of a clue, but for now virtually every edit I've seen come
from a PR firm has been crap.

Kelly