[WikiEN-l] Wikipedia as part of a social media strategy for hotels

David Goodman dggenwp at gmail.com
Mon Jun 25 03:14:58 UTC 2012


Apparently we need to be a good deal stricter about  hotel entries.
Notability we can deal with--the content in them is considerably more
difficult to police.

On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 3:52 PM, Carcharoth <carcharothwp at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On 6/22/12, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
>> http://www.hospitalitynet.org/news/4056585.html
>>
>> I suspect we may have (how do I put this) an opportunity to be helpful
>> to an influx of newbies with not-so-good articles in need of
>> improvement.
>
> Quoting from that:
>
> "Wikipedia - CoMMingle will set up a Wikipedia listing if one does not
> exist and create social links. CoMMingle will also monitor the
> Wikipedia listing quarterly and check content for accuracy."
>
>> (Is there a good place on-wiki to note such endeavours? One of the VPs?)
>
> Probably. I'm tempted to suggest WikiProject Spam. It is worrying how
> Wikipedia is associated by some with social media.
>
> Carcharoth
>
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