[WikiEN-l] Yet another PR company busted ... apparently it's all our fault

[David Gerard]

On 12 November 2012 14:56, Charles Matthews
<charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com> wrote:
> On 12 November 2012 13:54, Thomas Morton <morton.thomas at googlemail.com> wrote:

>> We won't win a moral argument; they are breaking the social contract of a
>> website. We regularly defame people.

> http://www.themoscowtimes.com/business/article/report-usmanov-pr-firm-tweaked-wikipedia-entry/471315.html
> is interesting to read in this context. The moral side of whitewashing
> a biography ahead of a stock market flotation is fairly elusive.


Indeed. I urge Thomas to go grab a copy of the Times today. If only
articles this well-written concerning Wikipedia were more likely to be
read by the people on the Internet who would be most interested in
them ...


- d.