Quote:Microsoft's gaffe in paying someone to post Wikipedia entries raises a question: Why is it so bad to pay someone to contribute or correct encyclopedia entries?
Because if a company or politician hires a writer to contribute to an entry on the company the result will be a useless encyclopedia full of biased entries that resemble press releases. DUH!
[quote author=jezebel link=topic=6784.msg41367#msg41367 date=1169862063]
if a company or politician hires a writer to contribute to an entry on the company the result will be a useless encyclopedia full of biased entries that resemble press releases. DUH!
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:ditto:
[quote author=jezebel link=topic=6784.msg41367#msg41367 date=1169862063]
Quote:Microsoft's gaffe in paying someone to post Wikipedia entries raises a question: Why is it so bad to pay someone to contribute or correct encyclopedia entries?
Because if a company or politician hires a writer to contribute to an entry on the company the result will be a useless encyclopedia full of biased entries that resemble press releases. DUH!
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Why the he[[ do you think Micr0sh!t wants to do it-- to promote Lynux?? Of course, the idea is to slowly place more favorable ideas, knowing some will stick, then more - learning from the last. Eventually they plan to win control - that is their standard operating procedure {CONTROL}.
They allowed the information that they were doing this become public --- there is what I don't understand. So easy to infiltrate the editors without ever giving a hint of their intentions. Could it be a little trace of ethics???
....Naw.
Quote:He called that notion akin to a city with stellar trash collection telling its denizens to go ahead and litter, since the garbage wouldn't be around long...
Smart man.
Quote:Because if a company or politician hires a writer to contribute to an entry on the company the result will be a useless encyclopedia full of biased entries that resemble press releases. DUH!
:ditto:
Quote:So easy to infiltrate the editors without ever giving a hint of their intentions. Could it be a little trace of ethics???
....Naw.
I think it was simply a stupid move on their part, considering how suspect their ethics are. 8)