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'''New Approach to Promotionalism''' |
'''New Approach to Promotionalism''' |
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# All businessmen and professionals want a WP page is essential to their PR. |
# All businessmen and professionals want a WP page is essential to their PR. |
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| − | ## This is due to the role it has in Google and the general perception that WP is important. This is not unreasonable. |
+ | ## This is due to the role it has in Google and the general perception that WP is important. ''This is not unreasonable.'' |
# This increasingly gives rise to bad paid promotional editing |
# This increasingly gives rise to bad paid promotional editing |
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## subjects, company PR agents, outside PR firms & free-lance paid editors. |
## subjects, company PR agents, outside PR firms & free-lance paid editors. |
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## Increasingly difficult to control, or remove what's already included |
## Increasingly difficult to control, or remove what's already included |
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| − | ## Commercial organizations are the most conspicuous problem: |
+ | ## Commercial organizations are the most conspicuous problem: straight advertising: ''priority'' |
## Non-commercial organizations: government, universities, charities: advocacy & promotionalism, but less conspicuous |
## Non-commercial organizations: government, universities, charities: advocacy & promotionalism, but less conspicuous |
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## Individual professional also advertiise, but less conspicuous |
## Individual professional also advertiise, but less conspicuous |
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# No clear boundary between full presentation of relevant data and subtle POV advertising |
# No clear boundary between full presentation of relevant data and subtle POV advertising |
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## Good faith non-promotional editors use promotional writing |
## Good faith non-promotional editors use promotional writing |
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| − | #<s>NOT</s>DIRECTORY |
+ | #<s>NOT</s>DIRECTORY |
# for any reasonably important business or organization a page can be justified - |
# for any reasonably important business or organization a page can be justified - |
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## either GNG or listed company or other fixed criterion |
## either GNG or listed company or other fixed criterion |
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Revision as of 18:45, 20 October 2018
New Approach to Promotionalism
- All businessmen and professionals want a WP page is essential to their PR.
- This is due to the role it has in Google and the general perception that WP is important. This is not unreasonable.
- This increasingly gives rise to bad paid promotional editing
- subjects, company PR agents, outside PR firms & free-lance paid editors.
- Increasingly difficult to control, or remove what's already included
- Commercial organizations are the most conspicuous problem: straight advertising: priority
- Non-commercial organizations: government, universities, charities: advocacy & promotionalism, but less conspicuous
- Individual professional also advertiise, but less conspicuous
- No clear boundary between full presentation of relevant data and subtle POV advertising
- Good faith non-promotional editors use promotional writing
NOTDIRECTORY- for any reasonably important business or organization a page can be justified -
- either GNG or listed company or other fixed criterion
- We should ourselves prepare these, as for Geographical features, etc.
- contains basic directory information
- prepared and updated through Wikidata
- Further promotional editing needs to be controlled
- Possible mechanism: Pending changes (PC1) , Needs to be adapted , perhaps per editor / field
- new editors have their changes visible for editing, but not visible to the unregistered public until approved. --