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Re: Wikipedia: where truth dies online

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From what you describe, WP was totally correct to ban your organization. Your business model was to inject commercial links into articles. The fact that you think you provided some value in exchange is pretty much irrelevant.

I think you misread it - I said we have putted links in Reference fields (below article) to articles that were placed on our customers websites. The articles itself were quality, well researched and with images etc. Then we would do quality edit and add value to Wikipedia. If this is not quality editing then Wikipedia should ban hundreds of most active editors right away as this is only way full time editors can make…

Exactly. Editing WP for money is a conflict of interest unless you're being paid by Wikipedia. Hellbanning is the most appropriate action.

Re: Wikipedia: where truth dies online

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This is a climate change denialist upset that Wikipedia has a bias to verifiable reality.

Climate change is just one of the issues on which overactive editors of Wikipedia help create "verifiable reality" rather than merely reflect it. Which might be a bit of a problem. (The Wikipedia page for "climategate" is perhaps the best example of just HOW silly-political it can get.)
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