[WikiEN-l] Corporate vanity policy enforcement

geni geniice at gmail.com
Sun Oct 1 09:50:03 UTC 2006


On 10/1/06, charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com
<charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com> wrote:
> Guy Chapman aka JzG wrote
>
> >Perhaps that long discussed speedy criterion for
> > "advertisements masquerading as articles" should be introduced.
>
> Oh. Where it says above the edit box that ''Promotional articles about yourself, your friends, your company or products; or articles created as part of a marketing or promotional campaign, may be deleted in accordance with our deletion policies'', I kind of assumed we meant it. And that blatant puffs would be speedied by admins. Don't tell me that this has always been ex-process. Gasp!
>
> Charles
>

Pretty much. Why do you think that [[Template:Db-advert]] was droped?
Doesn't stop people from trying to tag stuff for speeedy with the
reason being "advert" though.

-- 
geni



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