[Foundation-l] Does google favour WIkipedia?

[Fred Bauder]

> Fred Bauder wrote:
>>> Perhaps they honestly believe that their keyword-primed advertorial
>>> page is actually more useful than a Wikipedia page and are astounded
>>> that Google might have the temerity to disagree. ;-)
>>
>> We can't create a new page based on a press release or an
>> advertisement.
>> Usually a new page results from news, journal articles, or news about
>> journal articles. There will be links to the sources. This is not a
>> difficult pattern to program into an algorithm.
>
> We can't? It happens every single day on Wikimedia wikis and the articles
> generally sit around for weeks, if not months or years. I'm not sure what
> you're talking about.
>
> MZMcBride

I speak of the enforceable requirement that information in Wikipedia come
from a reliable published source.

Fred