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It's getting really hard now. I've been editing since day one. Recently I had awful trouble getting a new article accepted. I gave up for some months and came b
by qingcharles 10mo ago
It's getting really hard now. I've been editing since day one. Recently I had awful trouble getting a new article accepted. I gave up for some months and came back and it was accepted first time.
Apparently you can pay a high-ranking Wikipedia editor to massage your article into the site. I know a Hollywood producer who paid to get himself listed.
What amazes me most, though, is that I still find new subjects to write about that don't exist yet on Wikipedia.
- could-of 10mo agoPaying to create an article is a scam: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Scam_warning https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Scam_warning
- qingcharles 10mo agoIt's more nuanced than that. Wikipedia allows payments in some situations as long as they are public: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Connected_contributor_(paid)#:~:text=TemplateData%20for%20Connected%20contributor%20(paid,Template%20parameters%5BEdit%20template%20data%5D https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Connected_contributor... The editor who massaged the article in question has it somewhere on his profile that he accepts payments and has a list of articles he has taken payment for.
- Gander5739 10mo agoCould you provide their username, please? I'd ba interested.