On Sep 19, 2006, at 5:51 PM, David Alexander Russell wrote:
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Gregory Kohs wrote:
With some trepidation, I notify the WikiEN-l list
about this blog
post. I
do so in the interest of some interesting Wikipedia analysis, and
fair play
(feel free to rip me a new one in the blog's Comments section).
Here is the
blog post:
http://mywikibiz-com.blogspot.com/2006/09/gaping-void-in-
wikipedia.html
Kindly,
Gregory Kohs
'Wikipedia is not an advertising service. Promotional articles about
yourself, your friends, your company or products; or articles
created as
part of a marketing or promotional campaign, may be deleted in
accordance with our deletion policies. For more information, see
Wikipedia:Spam.'
In other words, your company's business model is inherently flawed,
because any articles written as part of a promotional campaign
(which is
what your company does) will be immediately deleted.
Umm... see how your quote from policy says "may" be deleted, and then
the paragraph where you try to drive a contributor off jumps up to
"will be immediately deleted?"
That's the part where you got it wrong. In reality, deleting NPOV,
verifiable content on notable subjects because its creator didn't
touch third base is destructive to Wikipedia, and anyone involved in
it should be arbcommed. And if I'm ever made directly aware of it,
they will be arbcommed.
-Phil