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<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />Are you Wiki worthy? Brooklyn webpreneurs cashing in writing [b]Wikipedia profiles[/b]
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Making New Yorkers Wiki worthy is netting two Brooklyn guys big bucks. Record producer Erez Safer, 33, and film maker Aaron Wertheimer, 34, spend their spare time creating citation-heavy Wikipedia entries for clients who pay $300 a pop.



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<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />These Two Brooklyn Guys Are Making $300 an Article on [b]Wikipedia[/b]
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By Kelly Faircloth 8:07am The Wikipedia hive mind does not take kindly to the ad copy. So blatantly self-promotional language and a lack of citations are likely to get a would-be writer nowhere. But if there's one thing the Internet has taught us, ...

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<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />Want To Be [b]Wikipedia-Worthy? It Costs $300[/b]
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By Victoria Bekiempis Fri., May 4 2012 at 12:44 PM Here's another idea that would have made you rich if you had thought of it first (but didn't.) Brooklynites Aaron Wertheimer and Erez Safer are now making "citation-heavy" Wikipedia entries for 300 ...

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<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />A Vanity [b]Wikipedia Entry Will Cost You $300[/b]
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Now that there's a company out there willing to make you Wikipedia famous, for a price, we get an idea of how much an entry in the Internet's de-facto library cost. Turns out it's $300. The Daily News reports on thirtysomethings Erez Safer and Aaron ...

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