Monday, June 3, 2013

Wikipedia page of Freelancer.com - the "about us" page of the company?

Anyone who visits the wikipedia page of freelancer.com will find it funny to see that the page is completely vandalized by the company recruited employee who is responsible for ensuring their version of wikipedia page to stay. It seems that the page is the "about us" page of the company in wikipedia's domain. But they faced resistance there.

Wikipedia moderators commented  against the attempt to make the page their corporate about us page saying -
  • ...combines meaningless marketing claims
  • ...pointless storytelling
  • ...excessive detail about the mechanics of the site
  • ...The page is worrisomely shallow
  • ...it is promotional in tone and reads like an instruction manual

These can be found here - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Freelancer.com . Alongside these, it should be mentioned that those who tried to include links to expose freelancer.com's misdeeds failed to do so as the wikipedia moderators pointed out that wikipedia needs reliable sources to amend the claims as true.

For future readers who may wish to see that how it is looking today, a screenshot of the wikipedia quality notices-






This quality notices read as follow at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freelancer.com -

  • This article appears to be written like an advertisement. (February 2013)
  • The topic of this article may not meet Wikipedia's notability guideline for web content. (February 2013)
  • This article may contain an excessive amount of intricate detail that may only interest a specific audience. (February 2013)
  • An editor has expressed a concern that this article lends undue weight to certain ideas, incidents, controversies or matters relative to the article subject as a whole. (February 2013)
  • A major contributor to this article appears to have a close connection with its subject. (January 2013)

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