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What's a good way to add a new page to Wikipedia when you have a Conflict of Interest?

  • I've been asked to write some text about an organisation I represent (I'm not employed by them but am on one of their committees), to add to Wikipedia, as they do not currently have an entry. I understand that if I add the page myself it's likely to be deleted due to the conflict of interest, and that it's better to use the Talk page for a similar entry to ask someone else to add the new page. Wikipedia experts: what advice do you have about how to go about this task?

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    This is always a thorny issue. What I would advice is you create a draft of an article and submit it at Articles for Creation: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_creation Make sure it satisfies basic Wikipedia standards (it is well referenced, neutral, not plagiarized etc.) and make a note somewhere on the talk page clearly saying you are affiliated with the subject and that you'd be willing to resolve any COI issues. If you're careful enough, someone will review and accept it within a week at most. If you want, you could post a link to the draft article here and I could review it for you.

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You can request that an article be created following the instructions on this page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:RA

Andrew Hennigan

Just do the editing like you'd do on any unrelated subject. At http://www.WikiExperts.us we stand for ETHICAL Wikipedia visibility work, and therefore AGAINST "COI disclosure". COI disclosure would be UNETHICAL as it would prejudice our clients, exposing them to unfair persecution by Wikimedia, which founder had repeatedly pledged to ban Wikipedia accounts of all paid editors. At least some other Wikimedia staffers and Wikipedia admins are similarly aggressively anti-PR. If revealed, our clients would be discriminated upon. Specifically, they would be the ONLY group banned from direct editing; the only group which would have to wait, often a long time and sometimes in vane, for some anonymous editor with unknown qualifications to act on the request we made on their behalf in the Talk page. Wikipedia is written by individuals many of whom have strong biases. The disclosure rule proposed by Wikimedia would allow a corporate profiles to be edited by competitors, disgruntled employees, bitter ex-spouses, and cyber-vandals, but not the representatives of the company. Allowing for such discrimination would be unfair an unethical. Wikipedia has no customer support to address corporate grievances, and its volunteers predictably fail to create problem-free profiles for many notable corporations, including the largest. Wikipedia visibility professionals are therefore the only defenders of valid corporate interests in Wikipedia. Wikimedia uses a false pretext for its "disclose COI" demand: it claims that commercial COI is a danger for neutrality. In reality, the bias of a paid Wikipedia visibility professional is much weaker than many other biases Wikipedia content review system is successfully dealing with. We believe that Wikimedia request is instead designed to maintain a large army of free contributors, who find proliferation of paid editing on Wikipedia demotivating. We believe that it's unethical of Wikimedia to prejudice all notable businesses and individuals solely to avoid paying for content development. We also deem unethical soliciting $42 million dollars in donations per 2013 instead of using commercial model. Much of that money could have been instead donated to the noble causes which cannot self-finance. We are proud to be be contributing daily in development of quality content on Wikipedia while facilitating business of our clients. We consider Wikipedia to be one of the greatest achievements of the Internet Age, respect its founders and volunteers, and only critique policies which we see to be endangering Wikipedia's ongoing success.

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