--- Steve Bennett <stevagewp(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 1/18/07, Cheney Shill
<halliburton_shill(a)yahoo.com>
wrote:
podcasts. This is a great example of Wikipedia
being
abused to advertise and promote, if not straight
product
placement and shilling.
Does that harm us?
As an encyclopedia, yes. Would you trust another
encyclopedia, pick whichever you like, if you knew it was
being used for non-explicit/hidden advertising and
promotion? Considering NPOV is the base policy at
Wikipedia, the question is how does advertising & promotion
within articles support that?
What if a company with more money views the article and
companies mentioned within it as as competition and starts
adjusting the content to promote it? Does that harm your
claimed purpose for the article?
~~Pro-Lick
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Pro-Lick
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