> 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. > For a well sourced, well written, well structured article that takes a > neutral point of view about a clearly relevant subject, I cannot see that > the identity of the author should make much difference. That said, > obviously there may be someone who disagrees with me in this. > > Hans >
What you are saying, in practice, is that a major firm that hires a professional public relations firm that writes the best sort of article, from the viewpoint of the firm, that could be expected to be acceptable is OK, but a crude amateur effort by an inexperienced free-lancer is not. What makes a Wikipedia article better for a firm if serious attention by a public relations firm is regularly paid to it is rather subtle. The brights are a little brighter, the dulls a little less boring, and the pig is cute. Fred > > On 21 October 2013 16:07, David Richfield <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> 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 be seen as fair and transparent by the >> Norwegian Wikipedia community? >> >> On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 3:51 PM, Hans A. Rosbach >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> > 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 >> be >> > futile anyway. >> > >> > Hans A. Rosbach / User:Haros >> > >> > >> > >> > On 21 October 2013 15:14, David Richfield <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > >> >> 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 pages directly or only ever edit talk pages >> >> * Edit under their own names or under company names >> >> >> >> What are the rules for the Nordic languages? >> >> >> >> Thanks, >> >> >> >> David >> >> >> >> -- >> >> David Richfield >> >> [[:en:User:Slashme]] >> >> +491723724440 >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> Wikimedia-l mailing list >> >> [email protected] >> >> Unsubscribe: >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, >> >> <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Wikimedia-l mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > Unsubscribe: >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, >> <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> >> >> >> >> -- >> David Richfield >> [[:en:User:Slashme]] >> +491723724440 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimedia-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, >> <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> >> > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
