How To Spot Airbrushed Wikipedia Entries - Discovery News Options

[Newsfeed]

<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />How To Spot Airbrushed [b]Wikipedia Entries[/b]
Discovery News
The encyclopedia anyone can edit can also be the resource anybody can question. The latest case of alleged Wikipedia abuse: Last week, BuzzFeed reported that Newt Gingrich's staffers had repeatedly edited entries for the candidate and his wife Callista ...

and more »

View the article

[thekohser]

I think it's pretty funny how a fruitless Facebook group (like CREWE) gets its own Wikipedia article, but (in many cases) an actual business that has millions of dollars in revenues, employing hundreds of people, distributing products far and wide will often not stand a ghost of a chance of having a Wikipedia article.

[milowent]

I think it's pretty funny how a fruitless Facebook group (like CREWE) gets its own Wikipedia article, but (in many cases) an actual business that has millions of dollars in revenues, employing hundreds of people, distributing products far and wide will often not stand a ghost of a chance of having a Wikipedia article.

this is absurd. since WP:GNG basically adopts a view that whatever newspapers think is of reader interest deserves an article, that's what we get left with. if we had a revenue threshold for companies, we could provide more rational coverage like business websites do.

[Fusion]

this is absurd. since WP:GNG basically adopts a view that whatever newspapers think is of reader interest deserves an article, that's what we get left with. if we had a revenue threshold for companies, we could provide more rational coverage like business websites do.

So what one needs to do is get two or three articles about a firm into the mainstream media. This can generally be done with a few lunches and suppers. Then behold the firm is notable. Of course once the article is written it needs to be maintained against vandals and other editors. It is best to have monitors in various countries to ensure round the clock coverage and reduce the chances that the monitors are detectable as sockpuppets.