[WikiEN-l] Incoming!!!

[Alphax (Wikipedia email)]

Steve Bennett wrote:
> On 3/7/06, Mathias Schindler <neubau at presroi.de> wrote:
> 
>>See http://www.micropersuasion.com/2006/03/marketing_and_w.html for
>>details. I consider the word "marketing" misleading. There is no reason
>>why companies shouldn't update information about themselves in wikipedia
>>if they have a source and if they follow the NPOV and other wikipedia
>>policies.
> 
> 
> I agree. That would make a great news story. "Company complains:
> Anyone can edit our article on Wikipedia - except us".
> 
> 
>>[[de:Siemens AG]]'s financial figures for 2005 were updated from IPs
>>from within Siemens. This is fine and not "marketing".
> 
> 
> As long as they do it transparently.
> 
> Is it time we updated [[WP:AUTO]] to cover corporate entities?
> 

Yes.

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