Wikipedia talk:Wikipedia Signpost/2023-07-03/Disinformation report
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Nearly no other wiki task gives me more joy that cutting out marketing and PR nonsense, even when it isn't brazenly copied straight from the source. Thankfully, I think many Wikipedians feel the same way. ASUKITE 11:17, 3 July 2023 (UTC)
- I admit I didn't follow the news closely when they first came out, but to me, this is just an example of how dangerous disinformation can be at its worst... --Oltrepier (talk) 13:29, 3 July 2023 (UTC)
- The phrase "suspected OceanGate employees inserted text directly from OceanGate's website more than eight times" makes no sense. Why would any Wikipedia editor be concerned about what company employees are adding to the company website? Is it possible that the Signpost editor reviewing this piece should have changed that to "OceanGate's Wikipedia article" instead?~TPW 13:58, 5 July 2023 (UTC)
- "inserted text directly from OceanGate's website" reads "they inserted it into WP" to me. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 14:33, 5 July 2023 (UTC)
- Or starting with the previous sentence "Oceangate began a series of advertisements on Wikipedia a month later....suspected OceanGate employees inserted text directly from OceanGate's website more than eight times." Smallbones(smalltalk) 23:58, 5 July 2023 (UTC)
This pretty much sums it up: "..there were not enough editors working on the article with enough time to complete the task.." We can only do what we can do. A lot of stuff flies under the radar and, like Diaana's following up on a problematic editor, articles full of paid promotional content are often found only by chance. One that I found TITANIIC (since AfD'd) had apparently been written by a paid project staff member. It went undetected for at least two years. Blue Riband► 00:49, 6 July 2023 (UTC)
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Kleuske is female so don’t refer to her as “he”. 2A02:A46A:2C29:1:E0BF:6986:A20:50B5 (talk) 07:41, 9 July 2023 (UTC)