[Foundation-l] Wikipedia ... but where are you going ... (was:Enforcing WP:CITE ...)

Sun Dec 4 01:02:52 UTC 2005

Sabine Cretella wrote:

> Well ... if you let negative articles do the marketing ... I do not 
> allow that ... I do talk to people about wikipedia, I print out 
> articles, I pass them around, I show them where it is useful, I give 
> articles to some of the kids that come to me get (printed) articles on 
> the subject they are studying at school, they take it to their 
> teachers, friends etc.
>
> Anyone of us can do that - that is positive usage, positive marketing

I would expect that all of us does do that.

> ... but if you believe newspapers who are only in search for scoops 
> and whatever will help us to become known ... well ... 

> Do you know of a reporter who likes to write about positive news? 
> These do not make scoop and do not make the reporter rich ... no ... 
> so we are the ones who need to be be positive reporters. 

They know about this in the land that invented the word "paparazzi".

Ec