[Wikimedia-l] Rules of engagement for companies in Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish, Danish?

[Hans A. Rosbach]

I'm not sure. Someone who posts deficient article that they obviously have
a special relationship to, where the language in addition is deficient, may
easily be meet by a deletion request. The difficulty with promoting a
company in Wikipedia is the promotion part, not the identity of the author.
For a well sourced, well written, well structured article that takes a
neutral point of view about a clearly relevant subject, I cannot see that
the identity of the author should make much difference. That said,
obviously there may be someone who disagrees with me in this.

Hans


On 21 October 2013 16:07, David Richfield <davidrichfield at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks for the quick reply, Hans!  If our representatives would (for
> example) translate an English company page into Norwegian, and then
> explain the edits on the talk page, and identify their conflict of
> interest on their user pages and also the article talk page, would you
> expect that that would be seen as fair and transparent by the
> Norwegian Wikipedia community?
>
> On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 3:51 PM, Hans A. Rosbach
> <hans.a.rosbach at gmail.com> wrote:
> > In no-wp we have a policy that usernames shall be for individuals and
> thus
> > typical company usernames are blocked and asked to request change of
> names.
> > These users then have no restrictions on which pages to edit. As long as
> we
> > don't demand identification of users, restrictions on edits would IMO be
> > futile anyway.
> >
> > Hans A. Rosbach / User:Haros
> >
> >
> >
> > On 21 October 2013 15:14, David Richfield <davidrichfield at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> When I'm not editing Wikimedia projects, I work for Mondelez
> >> International, and our Social Media team has contacted me for advice
> >> on responsible engagement with Wikipedia.  I know that different
> >> language projects have different rules on whether company
> >> representatives should:
> >>
> >> * Edit pages directly or only ever edit talk pages
> >> * Edit under their own names or under company names
> >>
> >> What are the rules for the Nordic languages?
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >>
> >> David
> >>
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