On 12 June 2014 15:17, Nathan <nawrich(a)gmail.com> wrote:
One reason to think its legit and not a smokescreen?
Signing on to the
statement substantially increases the potential costs of being caught
violating WP policies. Clients hiring bare knuckles PR experts may not have
a high regard for the importance of our site policies. If news gets blasted
out that a firm said "We'll abide by these principles, we promise!" and
then publicly fails to do so, clients might care about that more.
Yeah. Even in these dark days, journalism occasionally happens, and PR
people are keenly aware of the rows of severed heads the media has
stuck on spikes around its Wikipedia coverage. [*]
- d.
[*] ok, this analogy got a bit strained by the end of the sentence.
However, severed heads on spikes and not wishing to join them is the
main emotion here.