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| EricBarbour |
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He's right about this: QUOTE The volume of content is growing, but the active contributors to maintain, update and police those articles is shrinking. As this trend continues, vandalism, bias, outdated information and blatant factual errors will run even more rampant. It already IS running even more rampant. "hiring the CIA instead of sending a diplomat"? Diplomacy doesn't work with those bastards. That should be a major point made in King's WP writing. And he's talking to FT2, evidently not realizing FT2's sordid history. Any bets on how long before someone blocks Mr. King for paid editing? |
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| Anne Sexton |
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And now he's going to be in the signpost: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=...oldid=454199593And why does he call articles "wikis" on his user page and elsewhere? It would have exposed him even if he'd not given himself up. Wikipedia is well-guarded with shibboleths. |
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| tarantino |
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QUOTE(thekohser @ Thu 1st December 2011, 9:26pm)  King is this Wikipedia user. He says that Edelman is a client of his. Hmmm... He's also David44357Â (T-C-L-K-R-D)
(http://david44357.com/) and David4057Â (T-C-L-K-R-D)
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QUOTE(thekohser @ Sat 3rd December 2011, 3:29am) QUOTE(Anne Sexton @ Fri 2nd December 2011, 5:28pm)
And why does he call articles "wikis" on his user page and elsewhere?
Another bit of his writing included: QUOTE ...the Wiki is bias (sic) and needs improvement.
I see that it use (sic) to be much worse. That's David King, Wikipedia Expert, for ya! QUOTE David King is a PR and social media marketing professional with a unique expertise in Wikipedia. He's created and led the Wikipedia practice for PR agencies for three years and written dozens of Wikis on Fortune 500 companies, major legislation, politicians, technology categories and startups. He has also trained new Wikipedians around the globe.
David comes to us from Silicon Valley, where he supported B2B technology companies ranging from the Fortune 500 to stealth startups. In his line of work David has demonstrated exponential growth in social media results, secured regular mainstream media coverage for embedded technology companies and routinely provided strategic recommendations that consistently bolstered results to dozens of companies. |
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| Michaeldsuarez |
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The Signpost interviewed King for the Signpost: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wik...-05/In_the_newsHere's how the Wikipedian readership responded: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=...oldid=464454071QUOTE King mentions "multi-billion dollar companies with some of the most ethical business practices in the world" which is ridiculous. There are no multi-billion dollar companies with ethical business practices. If they had ethical business practices they wouldn't be multi-billion dollar companies, they'd be non-profit charities. King is a nice guy. He listened to my concerns in the Email conservation we had, and he disclosed his other accounts: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=...oldid=463723475It's unfortunate that the Wikipedia community will never accept people such as King and Thekohser. Edit: I also see that Skomorokh didn't give King a chance to give his opinion on the Bell Pottinger scandal. In fact, Skomorokh never asked King about the scandal after learning about it: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=...oldid=464085824Skomorokh published the story on December 6: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=...oldid=464372170If Skomorokh didn't have the time to ask, then perhaps he or she should've published the story the following week instead in order to give King the chance to better defend his position, but I guess that the Signpost is the fast-food restaurant of news; it rushes food / news out quickly without caring about its quality or the impact it may have on the health of others. This post has been edited by Michaeldsuarez: |
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| thekohser |
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David King sent me a message on Facebook: QUOTE Your forum won't seem to accept my email address to register. I wanted to clarify that Edelman is not a client, just a Wiki I worked on. I never meant to indicate that they paid me anything. I used them as an example of a bad company Wiki for a long time before deciding to fix it. I use to work there about six years ago and still have friends there. In fact many Wikis I've touched represent genuine volunteer work and some clients I've counseled have made contributions on their own usernames. I am also surprised Jimbo hasn't banned me. What's life without a little game of chance? I responded to the Pottinger situation here http://socialfresh.com/bell-pottinger-wikipedia/And on Wikipedia Skomorokh's Talk page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:SkomorokhCould the WR staff give any reason why it would be difficult for King to register here? |
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