Comment on What's the easiest way to get your own wikipedia page without committing a crime?

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• EmilyIsTrans@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  You can’t edit Wikipedia pages on a topic to which you have a close connection/conflict of interest.

  Also WP:Notability

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  • JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Which is funny because it routinely happens as well as nation states hiring small teams that start edit wars occasionally IIRC.

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    • EmilyIsTrans@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I mean yeah, but people also regularly steal things despite it being against the rules. Like those, wiki rules are enforced (theoretically) as a best effort.

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• TootSweet@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Won’t last long, but it satisfies the requirements.

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  • TehBamski@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    If you have a few or more references, then it has a better chance of surviving on Wikipedia. Otherwise, it’s considered low quality/importance.

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• DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I mean that is a technically correct answer, but they’ll just delete it because they can’t have a bunch of wikipedia pages about every person in the world.

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• NutinButNet@hilariouschaos.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I did this and they removed it and I reposted it and then they threatened to ban me lol

  Granted this was decades ago when I was a teen, but I doubt they have changed.

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  • aeronmelon@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    It’s much different now, you’d be banned without discussion.

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