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I've never seen an entry on a wiki where someone asks others not to edit (a.k.a., contribute). Since discovering this website, I enjoy using it quite frequently. However, the more I use it the more I come across entries that reek of blatant self-promotion (a.k.a., advertising). You know the ol' saying, if it looks like a skunk and smells like a skunk.... | I've never seen an entry on a wiki where someone asks others not to edit (a.k.a., contribute). Since discovering this website, I enjoy using it quite frequently. However, the more I use it the more I come across entries that reek of blatant self-promotion (a.k.a., advertising). You know the ol' saying, if it looks like a skunk and smells like a skunk.... | ||
:I completely agree. A lot of articles include content that is self-promotional or one sided. My hope is we can move away from that. When building the earlier articles information was used by permission from other sources, many of which had a commercial interest in the subject. Others were written from opinionated points of view by one author with particular interest in that brand. We need to re-write those articles without loosing them entirely. If you have expertise in an area and would like to re-write an article or otherwise start a more collaborative effort in that area, that would be great! Perhaps we can keep relevant content by keeping it in quotes or moving it into a separate article and quoting from it. My concern is editing within the quoted material. That happened recently in a Q&A area of the Tobacco section. GL Pease answered some questions. His answers were edited. Better as a result, I think, but now they are not "his" answers. That should all be re-written to take it out of that format, but that will be a huge undertaking, and no one seems interested in taking that on. | |||
:So yes, it's a bit of a mess--I'm very interested in getting it straightened out. Glad you find at least some of the articles useful. Thanks for your input. --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] 08:57, 9 January 2012 (CST) | |||
==PR, POV, Wikis and non-wikis== | ==PR, POV, Wikis and non-wikis== | ||