[WikiEN-l] PR consultants: perhaps Wikipedia is not the ideal promotional medium

[Samuel Klein]

This article makes my week.

I generally feel we should blank articles more and delete them less,
but this is an area where the explicit rebuff of deletion has its
advantages.

SJ

On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 8:41 PM, Durova <nadezhda.durova at gmail.com> wrote:
> Excellent piece.  Especially the close about how it's a difficult position
> for PR professionals to report to the client that the article was deleted.
>
> -Durova
>
> On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 1:35 PM, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> http://rushprnews.com/2010/03/31/pr-consultants-should-think-twice-before-using-wikipedia-to-promote-clients
>>
>> PR consultants should think twice before using Wikipedia to promote clients
>> March 31, 2010
>>
>> Leicestershire, UK (RPRN) 03/31/10 — PR consultants are being advised
>> to think twice before incorporating Wikipedia entries into campaign
>> strategies after the site started cracking down on articles submitted
>> by any public relations agency it considered to be using its resource
>> to promote clients.
>>
>>
>> (muwahaha. Spotted by Mathias Schindler. The article sets out en:wp's
>> rationales and likely actions very well indeed.)
>>
>>
>> - d.
>>
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