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

[Thedjatclubrock Enwiki]

Yeah, it makes some good points, and for *most* situations, what Ian said is
correct.
Lesson #2 — Understand the Community and Know the Rules^Number 1 Point^
--Thedjatclubrock

On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 6:10 PM, Ian Woollard <ian.woollard at gmail.com> 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.
>
> > - d.
>
> --
> -Ian Woollard
>
> We live in an imperfectly imperfect world. If we lived in a perfectly
> imperfect world things would be a lot better.
>
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