User:DGG/New Approach to Promotionalism

New Approach to Promotionalism
 * 1) All  businessmen and professionals  want a WP page is essential to their PR.
 * 2) This is due  to the role it has in Google and the general perception that WP is important. This is not unreasonable.
 * 3) This increasingly gives rise to  bad paid promotional editing
 * 4) subjects, company PR agents, outside PR firms & free-lance paid editors.
 * 5) Increasingly difficult to control, or remove what's already included
 * 6) Commercial organizations are the most conspicuous problem: straight advertising: priority
 * 7) Non-commercial organizations: government, universities, charities: advocacy & promotionalism, but less conspicuous
 * 8) Individual professional also advertise, but less conspicuous
 * 9) No clear boundary between full presentation of relevant data and subtle POV advertising
 * 10) Good faith non-promotional editors use promotional writing
 * 11)  WP contains elements of a directory
 * 12) for any reasonably important business or organization a page can be justified
 * 13) either GNG or listed company or other fixed criterion
 * 14) We should ourselves prepare these, as for Geographical features,  etc.
 * 15) contains basic directory information
 * 16) prepared and updated through Wikidata
 * 17)  Further promotional editing needs to be controlled
 * 18) Possible mechanism: Pending changes (PC1), Needs to be adapted , perhaps per editor / field
 * 19) new editors have their changes visible for editing, but not visible to the unregistered public until approved.  --