Re: [Wikimedia-l] Rules of engagement for companies in Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish, Danish?

On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 7:52 AM, David Richfield davidrichfi...@gmail.com wrote: I'm not in communications at all: I'm in RD, but our Corporate Communications team really does want to act in good faith, which is Yeah, usually when someone wants to play nicely ask asks openly people start to

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Rules of engagement for companies in Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish, Danish?

2013/10/22 David Richfield davidrichfi...@gmail.com Thanks all! Surprising as it might seem for a company our size, we don't have any consultants polishing our Wikipedia pages. I'm not in communications at all: I'm in RD, but our Corporate Communications team really does want to act in

[Wikimedia-l] Rules of engagement for companies in Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish, Danish?

Hi all, When I'm not editing Wikimedia projects, I work for Mondelez International, and our Social Media team has contacted me for advice on responsible engagement with Wikipedia. I know that different language projects have different rules on whether company representatives should: * Edit

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Rules of engagement for companies in Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish, Danish?

In no-wp we have a policy that usernames shall be for individuals and thus typical company usernames are blocked and asked to request change of names. These users then have no restrictions on which pages to edit. As long as we don't demand identification of users, restrictions on edits would IMO

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Rules of engagement for companies in Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish, Danish?

Thanks for the quick reply, Hans! If our representatives would (for example) translate an English company page into Norwegian, and then explain the edits on the talk page, and identify their conflict of interest on their user pages and also the article talk page, would you expect that that would

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Rules of engagement for companies in Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish, Danish?

I'm not sure. Someone who posts deficient article that they obviously have a special relationship to, where the language in addition is deficient, may easily be meet by a deletion request. The difficulty with promoting a company in Wikipedia is the promotion part, not the identity of the author.

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Rules of engagement for companies in Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish, Danish?

I'm not sure. Someone who posts deficient article that they obviously have a special relationship to, where the language in addition is deficient, may easily be meet by a deletion request. The difficulty with promoting a company in Wikipedia is the promotion part, not the identity of the

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Rules of engagement for companies in Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish, Danish?

Is skewing an article easier if you are good at it? Yes I think it is. Hans On 21 October 2013 21:13, Fred Bauder fredb...@fairpoint.net wrote: I'm not sure. Someone who posts deficient article that they obviously have a special relationship to, where the language in addition is

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Rules of engagement for companies in Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish, Danish?

2013/10/21 David Richfield davidrichfi...@gmail.com Hi all, For Swedish Wikipedia, as I understand our consensus and relevant texts (WP:IK, WP:Användarkonto, WP:Att skriva om näringsliv, företag och varumärken): When I'm not editing Wikimedia projects, I work for Mondelez International, and

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Rules of engagement for companies in Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish, Danish?

Thanks all! Surprising as it might seem for a company our size, we don't have any consultants polishing our Wikipedia pages. I'm not in communications at all: I'm in RD, but our Corporate Communications team really does want to act in good faith, which is why they started talking to me: they're