Okay, I'm just going to be bold and delete the Hyderabad and Bhopal pages, and explain to these folks that we're only here to support volunteer-led events, not corporate ones et cetera.
If any Wikimedians from either of those cities want to put something up, go for it though. Thanks for the quick response. On Jan 11, 2011, at 11:50 AM, theo10011 wrote: > Steven > > Its a common issue with marketing companies like this. The event is for 17th > January, I think we should delete the page altogether, there's no sense in > promoting something this exploitative on the wrong day. > > I recall there were some Wikipedians from Hyderabad, but not sure if thats > one of them. Perhaps someone from the chapter might be able to shed more > light on this. > > In the mean time, I vote to have the page removed or any other that tries to > exploit the ten celebration. > > Regards > > > On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 1:12 AM, Steven Walling <swall...@wikimedia.org> > wrote: > Hi everyone, > > So recently a Hyderabad event got created on ten.wikipedia.org, and I've > received some email about it. However, if you read the page > (http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyderabad,_India) you can see it doesn't quite > seem to be run by Wikimedians, and I'm concerned by some of the content, such > "Wikipedia, as an ultimate resource for Online Media/Marketing" and the fact > that is seems to be run solely by a media company. > > Does anyone know the editor who created the page or listed contact? I don't > want to promote an event that is less about Wikipedia and your work than some > random company. > > Steven Walling > Fellow at the Wikimedia Foundation > wikimediafoundation.org > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimediaindia-l mailing list > Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimediaindia-l mailing list > Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l Steven Walling Fellow at the Wikimedia Foundation wikimediafoundation.org _______________________________________________ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
