On 8/22/06, Sheldon Rampton sheldon@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