Why Wikipedia Needs Marketers, by David King (a self-described "paid editor") Options

[thekohser]

This article has some interesting value, because it mostly makes sense... but it's far too late to effectively lay this sort of groundwork.

By the by, King is building up a little portfolio of published content related to Wikipedia and marketing.

[Michaeldsuarez]

The Signpost interviewed King for the Signpost:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wik...-05/In_the_news

Here's how the Wikipedian readership responded:

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=...oldid=464454071

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=463723475

It'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=464085824

Skomorokh published the story on December 6:

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=...oldid=464372170

If 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: