Articles about yourself, your friends, your website, a band you're in, your teacher, a word you made up, or a story you wrote If you are worthy of inclusion in the encyclopedia, let someone else add an article for you. Putting your friends in an encyclopedia may seem like a nice surprise or an amusing joke, but articles like this are likely to be removed. In this process, feelings may be hurt, which can be avoided by a little forethought on your part. So, just do not do it, please. The article might remain if you have enough humility to make it neutral and you really are notable, but even then it's best to submit a draft for approval and consensus of the community instead of just posting it up as unconscious biases may still exist of which you may not be aware.
C'mon man. Why screw up wikipedia which is a good thing. Can you imagine if everyone did that? There are other ways to get a good Google rating. Try coughing up a few bucks and do it the right way.
Scotti
Posts: 2606 | Location: Los Angeles, California USA | Registered: 14 January 2001
I tried putting myself in there years ago as a marketing ploy. They deleted it. I'm in there now, legit, too. Just be the main photographer on a major label album. Not sure it helped my google rating, maybe it did?
Posts: 490 | Location: Dallas, TX, USA | Registered: 12 December 2001
I can tell you from personal experience that Wikipedia is VERY sensitive to things like this. They monitor that sucker like you wouldn't believe. (I got in trouble for infringing a copyright on another web page - which *I wrote.* I got it fixed but it was kinda surreal.)
Wikipedia is not for marketing. I have to constantly rein in our marketing people who want to make helpful "additions" to the pages for our products which I know will just get the pages locked and our domain locked out from editing. I can see the temptation, but I wouldn't do it, I really wouldn't.
M
Posts: 167 | Location: Chicago, IL | Registered: 24 January 2008
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