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

[Delirium]

Andrew Gray wrote:
> More seriously, they're going to do it anyway, whether we tell them to
> or not. We may as well encourage people to tell them how to do it
> effectively and without causing trouble or producing actively bad
> material.
>   

It would be somewhat more effective if we didn't accuse everyone of 
acting in bad faith and advertising, as well. Nearly *every* article 
I've created on a company, none of which I've been personally involved 
with at all, and all of which are fairly large companies whose articles 
I've referenced to third-party print sources, has been tagged with 
something or other suggesting it be deleted. This sort of resistance to 
having articles on companies is one reason, I suspect, that our coverage 
of the area is so embarrassingly bad.

It could be helped by the new-page patrollers being a little more 
discerning and looking specifically for crappy, unreferenced, 
promotional type articles on companies, rather than just tagging every 
article on a company indiscriminately.

-Mark