[WikiEN-l] What To Do When Your Company Wikipedia Page Goes Bad

[Cheney Shill]

--- "Daniel R. Tobias" <dan at tobias.name> wrote:

> http://searchengineland.com/070627-094651.php

Thanks for posting.

The funniest part is someone (talking a lot like the
typical admin lost in wiki jargon) claiming that all such
changes will be reverted.  Of course, they rarely are. 
This is a common strategy and pretty much describes any and
every major company and political page on wikipedia.

Not to mention the supposedly NPOV abortion page that gets
mentioned in the NPOV article.  It's more general concept
is:
* add lots of information and picture
* obscure the disagreeable information with overload
* bury objectionables in stats and meaningless (aka,
nuetral) phrases

I.e., push "negativity" (any thing that disagrees with your
POV) out of site or marginalize as if it's just opinions,
such as under a criticism header near the end but not so
near that it's visible from the bottom.  Highlight the
information that agrees with your POV.  See Dick Cheney,
Hummers, Alberto Gonzales, Halliburton, and extremism like
the ABC Hypothesis and fetal pain.

Wikipedia should thank Jessica for highlighting the
technique so admins and editors have a clue as to what's
influencing things like the pretty infoboxes that highlight
only branding, Web sites, numbers, and photos that support
the PR objectives.  Why do so many start off like a resume
describing company history, who started it, when, how,
products, etc.?

~~Pro-Lick
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/User:Halliburton_Shill 
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pro-Lick
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Pro-Lick 
http://www.wikiality.com/User:Pro-Lick (Wikia supported site since 2006)


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