Re: [WikiEN-l] PR consultants: perhaps Wikipedia is not the ideal promotional medium

2010-04-03 Thread Charles Matthews
Fred Bauder wrote: Here's the question: If you can't tell it's PR, is there anything wrong with it? Dunno. Nothing wrong with it as PR, obviously, almost by definition. As we know, what we can enforce (pretty much) is that people edit within the rules; we cannot in any sense enforce the

Re: [WikiEN-l] PR consultants: perhaps Wikipedia is not the ideal promotional medium

2010-04-03 Thread William Pietri
On 04/02/2010 12:51 PM, Fred Bauder wrote: Here's the question: If you can't tell it's PR, is there anything wrong with it? Possibly, which is the problem. The main function of PR is to put the best spin on things in a way that everybody accepts that as the truth. By its nature, it's

Re: [WikiEN-l] PR consultants: perhaps Wikipedia is not the ideal promotional medium

2010-04-03 Thread James Alexander
I'm don't think that is always true which is what DGG was getting at. You are right you CAN run the risk of them being so good that you can't tell it's spin but to be honest you usually can in the wiki environment. A good PR group is going to know that just getting a well written article on