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I don't have them to hand, but I've certainly come across WP articles where it was pretty clear somebody just entered a company's sales-brochure more or less di

I don't have them to hand, but I've certainly come across WP articles where it was pretty clear somebody just entered a company's sales-brochure more or less directly... (and if I was marketing director at a company, I'd definitely try to have a presence on Wikipedia of some sort). This isn't a diss against WP though. I've found such questionable articles to be very rare, and despite Wikipedia's flaws, it's an amazing, amazing, site, one of the best things on the web, by far, and maybe even more astonishingly, one of the few major sites that isn't commercial. I find it indispensable in my everyday life (and donate money regularly)...

ghshephard 13y ago
Just one example would be useful.
- DanBC 13y ago
  It happens. It's usually found and fixed - either deleted or made more neutral. Sometimes the new editors are welcomed to the project and given help with COI. They're told about the licencing problems of just copying content from a corporate website. Sometimes they're bashed by vandal patrolling twinkle users. (Does that still happen? I think WP made efforts to stop it from happening.)
  - Kiro 13y ago
    Example.
    - DanBC 13y ago
      Jesus fucking christ learn to google - these are trivially easy to find. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incisive_Media https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incisive_Media) -- (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Jstapleton https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Jstapleton) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Jstapleton#Professional_Pensions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Jstapleton#Professio...) > This is an automated message from CorenSearchBot. I have performed a web search with the contents of Professional Pensions, and it appears to include a substantial copy of http://www.incisivemedia.com/corporate/products/professionalpensions http://www.incisivemedia.com/corporate/products/professional.... For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material; such additions will be deleted. You may use external websites as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. This message was placed automatically, and it is possible that the bot is confused and found similarity where none actually exists. If that is the case, you can remove the tag from the article and it would be appreciated if you could drop a note on the maintainer's talk page. CorenSearchBot (talk) 15:51, 4 March 2008 (UTC)
      - Kiro 13y ago
        Did you even read the thread? That's not a good example of what we're talking about at all.
- kalleboo 13y ago
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ericsson#Products_and_services http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ericsson#Products_and_services

ghshephard 13y ago

Just one example would be useful.

DanBC 13y ago
It happens. It's usually found and fixed - either deleted or made more neutral. Sometimes the new editors are welcomed to the project and given help with COI. They're told about the licencing problems of just copying content from a corporate website. Sometimes they're bashed by vandal patrolling twinkle users. (Does that still happen? I think WP made efforts to stop it from happening.)
- Kiro 13y ago
  Example.
  - DanBC 13y ago
    Jesus fucking christ learn to google - these are trivially easy to find. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incisive_Media https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incisive_Media) -- (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Jstapleton https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Jstapleton) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Jstapleton#Professional_Pensions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Jstapleton#Professio...) > This is an automated message from CorenSearchBot. I have performed a web search with the contents of Professional Pensions, and it appears to include a substantial copy of http://www.incisivemedia.com/corporate/products/professionalpensions http://www.incisivemedia.com/corporate/products/professional.... For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material; such additions will be deleted. You may use external websites as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. This message was placed automatically, and it is possible that the bot is confused and found similarity where none actually exists. If that is the case, you can remove the tag from the article and it would be appreciated if you could drop a note on the maintainer's talk page. CorenSearchBot (talk) 15:51, 4 March 2008 (UTC)
    - Kiro 13y ago
      Did you even read the thread? That's not a good example of what we're talking about at all.
kalleboo 13y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ericsson#Products_and_services http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ericsson#Products_and_services