On 28/12/06, Gregory Kohs thekohser@gmail.com wrote:
How is this not a violation of the WP:COI guideline?
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Virgin_Unite&diff=prev&old...
I guess if you donate enough money on December 27th to the Wikimedia Foundation, you're allowed to create whatever you want about yourself on Wikipedia. When I suggested that MyWikiBiz could make per-article donations to Wikimedia, I was hissed out of the room.
Huh, interesting; I thought that article had been created by the Anome. (I remember looking into creating it myself the previous night, but the paucity of information on the org in question meant it'd have been a dismal substub; it was already redlinked from [[Virgin Group]])
If we'd blocked the user and speedy-deleted the article when it was created, I can guarantee you it'd have been recreated in good faith by a community member later that day. Sometimes, kneejerk deletion reactions are somewhat futile.