On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 4:45 PM, WereSpielChequers <[email protected]> wrote: > One of those steps being "Check to see if anyone already working at > your company is a Wikipedia volunteer. If so, that person can be a > valuable resource to help you find your best strategy for getting > included." Now that sounds like a pretty good reason not to talk about > this particular hobby at work, or to edit in your real name.
I agree absolutely! I'm fortunate in that where I work doesn't have a Wikipedia entry, though there are sporadic mentions within other articles (one red-link, one dead link in a reference, one external link, and one incidental mention). I would be horrified if I was ever approached to "help" with anything Wikipedia-related to where I work. I have, sometimes, looked up some of the people I occasionally correspond with, or who crop up during the course of my work, and some of them have Wikipedia articles, but most don't. The article also says "The more mentions you have in the press, and the more visibility you have in social media and blogs". This completely misunderstands what a reliable source is and the difference between having a big (and usually temporary) media presence, and an enduring presence that generates its own press. There is a difference between media puffery of a company and independent, industry-wide evaluation by those with an interest in getting things right (and not just putting spin on things) - this is usually related to "getting things right" in terms of investing in or taking over a business. They also miss the most obvious method. Grow your company until it is so big that it will get an article anyway. The brutal truth is, that if you are a small company, unless you get big you will either not amount to much (and end up as a footnote in history, if that), or you will get big and get taken over, or take others over, or you will fold and vanish. The real test of enduring notability in business is whether a company or brandname is remembered after it has gone or been swallowed up by others. If no-one remembers much about something 5 years later, it probably wasn't worth writing about in the first place, unless it endured for several decades at least or did something that garnered a lot of attention, and maybe not even then. Carcharoth _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
