[Wikimediaindia-l] Anniversary event in Hyderabad

[Anirudh Bhati]

Thanks, Steven.  There are two pages.

http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyderabad,_India
http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyderabad

Yours sincerely,

Anirudh Bhati

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On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 1:25 AM, Steven Walling <swalling at wikimedia.org> wrote:
> Okay, I'm just going to be bold and delete the Hyderabad and Bhopal pages, and explain to these folks that we're only here to support volunteer-led events, not corporate ones et cetera.
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> If any Wikimedians from either of those cities want to put something up, go for it though.
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> Thanks for the quick response.
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> On Jan 11, 2011, at 11:50 AM, theo10011 wrote:
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>> Steven
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>> Its a common issue with marketing companies like this. The event is for 17th January, I think we should delete the page altogether, there's no sense in promoting something this exploitative on the wrong day.
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>> I recall there were some Wikipedians from Hyderabad, but not sure if thats one of them. Perhaps someone from the chapter might be able to shed more light on this.
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>> In the mean time, I vote to have the page removed or any other that tries to exploit the ten celebration.
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>> Regards
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>> On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 1:12 AM, Steven Walling <swalling at wikimedia.org> wrote:
>> Hi everyone,
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>> So recently a Hyderabad event got created on ten.wikipedia.org, and I've received some email about it. However, if you read the page (http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyderabad,_India) you can see it doesn't quite seem to be run by Wikimedians, and I'm concerned by some of the content, such "Wikipedia, as an ultimate resource for Online Media/Marketing" and the fact that is seems to be run solely by a media company.
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>> Does anyone know the editor who created the page or listed contact? I don't want to promote an event that is less about Wikipedia and your work than some random company.
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