I hope, as a Wikipedian since April 2010, that this is the beginning of a thorough change of culture on Wikipedia in the interest of making Wikipedia more of a

I hope, as a Wikipedian since April 2010, that this is the beginning of a thorough change of culture on Wikipedia in the interest of making Wikipedia more of a genuine free online encyclopedia[1] and less of a publicity platform for everyone who doesn't want to pay honest cash money for a paid advertisement. There is currently a proposal discussed among Wikipedians for a tighter policy against paid editing,[2] and as long as the new policy, whatever it ends up being, makes for less promotional content on Wikipedia, I'm all for it. People who want to help Wikipedia improve as unpaid volunteers have a number of channels for doing that. One thing that would help Wikipedia's goal of better content quality[3] is adding more reliable sources to articles. I try to help that process by compiling source lists in user space that any Wikipedian can use for updating articles.[4] It's a long slog to fight the rot on Wikipedia. Reading Wikipedia takes a sharp eye for propaganda and advertising in disguise. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Here_to_build_an_encyclopedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Here_to_build_an_enc... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Paid_editing_policy_proposal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Paid_editing_po... [3] https://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategic_Plan/Movement_Priorities#Improve_Content_Quality https://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategic_Plan/Movement_... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia#Accuracy_of_content https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia#Accuracy_of_content [4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:WeijiBaikeBianji/IntelligenceCitations https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:WeijiBaikeBianji/Intellig... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:WeijiBaikeBianji/AnthropologyHumanBiologyRaceCitations https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:WeijiBaikeBianji/Anthropo...