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That is a well written demand letter. It is reasonably cordial in tone but it is firm and leaves no doubt what the "public relations" company is expected to do
by tokenadult 13y ago
That is a well written demand letter. It is reasonably cordial in tone but it is firm and leaves no doubt what the "public relations" company is expected to do and why. My only thought, as a Wikipedian, is WHAT TOOK YOU SO LONG? This kind of abuse of Wikipedia's reputation by violating Wikipedia's terms of service has been going on for years, and even if this group of paid meatpuppets is driven from the site, there are still thousands of articles on Wikipedia that are edited for personal advantage by people who desire to publicize their products or services. I basically can't count on any article about a psychological or genetic test on Wikipedia to be neutral, for example, because people are in the business of publishing or distributing those tests, and other people are in the business of administering them. To date, there are still far too few Wikipedia articles that are based on neutral sources such as graduate-level textbooks (preferably used in combination, to detect any bias that might be in one or another of those) and long-form journalism.
The only Wikipedia article I can recommend (barely) so far is one I have done a lot to edit.[1] It still needs a lot of work, as does just about every other one of the 4,381,166 articles on English Wikipedia. Editing every Wikipedia article to that standard takes a lot of work, and most people don't like to do that much work as volunteers without getting paid, but would rather edit to promote their hobby or their pet cause, or edit to promote their business.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IQ_classification https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IQ_classification
- davidgerard 13y agoThe WMF legal department, prefer "get it precisely right" to "get it done quickly". In the more general case, WMF finds it difficult to act on on-wiki editorial problems for Section 230 immunity.