[WikiEN-l] Re: Ads on Wikipedia?

Mon Jan 2 17:01:32 UTC 2006

Nick Boalch wrote:
> Anthere wrote:
> 
>>However, current advertisement models show that the best revenues are
>>gathered from targetted advertisement.
> 
> 
> To be honest, it's this aspect and its various implications that worries
> me the most.
> 
> Let's say McDonald's pays us $500,000 to put an ad on [[Fast food]]. Is
> that compliant with [[WP:NPOV]]?
> 
> What happens if McDonald's will pay us $500,000 to put an ad on [[Fast
> food]], but only if we nix the 'Nutritional value' section?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> N.

I agree. This is the most worrying situation.

Putting on the ads ONLY in exchange of removing Nutritional Value of the 
CheeseBurger in the article is a total NONO. It is absolutely not 
negociable.

Imho, even putting an ad for the CheeseBurger on FastFood would be a 
very bad idea.

ant