[WikiEN-l] Fwd: The counterattack of the PR companies
Samuel Klein
meta.sj at gmail.com
Thu Apr 19 15:01:55 UTC 2012
On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 10:30 AM, Ken Arromdee <arromdee at rahul.net> wrote:
> If anything, it's worse for companies. Nobody tells BLP subjects that
> because they have a COI, they can't even remove incorrect statements
> about themselves.
A fair point.
I liked Andreas's way of putting this earlier:
> Positive bias and advertorials *can* be odious, but activist editing with a
> negative bent has traditionally been the greater problem in Wikipedia, in
> my view, and is the type of bias the Wikipedia system has traditionally
> favoured. Not doing harm is, in my view, more important than preventing
> the opposite.
Sam.
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