[WikiEN-l] "How to promote your company in Wikipedia" - pretty clueful blog post

[Tim Starling]

Ian Woollard wrote:
> 2008/7/1 David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com>:
>> http://www.e-cbd.com/zakazukhazoo/how-to-promote-your-company-in-wikipedia/
>>
>> This gets things mostly right.
> 
> I find it leaves out the truism that if people that own or work for
> the company have to create the article themselves, it's very unlikely
> to be truly notable. (Irrespective of whatever the policy says today).
> 
> There's a lot to be said for organic growth and shamefacedly poking
> you or your company in the wikipedia is in no way organic.

Wikipedia has thousands of articles about towns written by people who live 
in them, languages by people who speak them and academic fields by people 
who work in them. I don't see any bright line between that, and writing 
about a company you work for, in terms of notability. Many articles in 
Wikipedia are written by people with first-hand experience in the subject 
in question. I think if you want a definition of notability, you have to 
look elsewhere.

-- Tim Starling