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

[Thomas Morton]

You misunderstand.

As I mentioned: we simply have no moral high ground to criticise their
actions. Our controls are shoddy and we defame people all over the place.
They massage biographies etc. to cast things in a better light.

Who is the good guy?

Tom


On 12 November 2012 15:21, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>
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