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11/19/2010
Promoting through Wikipedia, is it possible?
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Does anyone have any tips on how to promote a new concept or a product through Wikipedia?
Let's say you have a product and want your potential customers, when they search for it, to know about it from Wikipedia, adding reputation to your ideas and raising awareness of your products.
How to do it successfully, without being seen and banned as a spammer?
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This very idea crossed my mind once - "Why don't tell people about my service on Wikipedia?" I read what others say about it, I read Wikipedia guidelines and the conclusion wasn't promising. It is impossible to get a jump-start from Wikipedia however it is very likely to get some sort of a boost unfortunately when you are not really in a desperate need for it.
This is one of the major rules for the Wikipedia content publishing:
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about yourself, your company, your band or your friends, nor pages that advertise, nor personal essays or other articles you would not find in an encyclopedia.
So, everything that you will write about you, your company or services will be promptly removed from the server and you can get onto the spammer list and be banned from publishing on Wikipedia indefinitely. Like I mentioned before there are situations when an article about your company or service can be published but it must have encyclopedical value and what the guideline says - "If your organization is notable enough to deserve an article, and you wish to avoid the appearance of a conflict of interest, the best thing to do is to provide any useful sources and request that an independent editor create the article". There is no clear explanation of the term "notable enough", but reviewing the list of articles on this matter leads to a conclusion that the company should be already well known but even in this case you can get a boost. The detailed info in regards to this topic can be found here - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Your_first_article and here - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:FAQ/Organizations.
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