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Paid editing: Horror and Humor


 * Where do we stand with paid editing, 3 years after the ToU change?
 * How many businesses (advertise) on Wikipedia?
 * How many can we handle?
 * Who advertises on Wikipedia

3 years after the ToU change

 * Old scandals
 * User:Morning277 still editing
 * Orangemoody still sending the same emails to potential clients
 * Other recent activity
 * Bell Pottinger still trying to ruin the world for pay (now in South Africa)


 * Old paid editing firms still openly advertising on the web
 * Just google "Wikipedia page creation service"
 * about 40 firms
 * Submit Express
 * "Even if you don't have enough press coverage yet, we may still be able to set up a Wikipedia page for you. To generate press coverage, we put you in contact with multiple press agencies and guarantee a minimum of 5-7 major media mentions."
 * "a Wikipedia page will instantly give you and/or your company more credibility. Get started today."
 * Wikimedia.org on page 7


 * And just this summer
 * VA gubernatorial/senatorial candidate admits campaign edited his page
 * PA House leader
 * Whopper's whopper of a lie
 * Burger King has over 60 subarticles
 * Entrepreneur magazine's 2 articles

How many businesses (advertise) on Wikipedia?

 * Business articles on Wikipedia in 2015
 * very roughly 50,000 companies
 * How many company articles do we get each day?
 * Pure guess 50 per day, or about 10,000-20,000 per year
 * Pure guess 80% are deleted ==> an increase of 2,000 - 4,000 each year

How many businesses in the US, in the world?

 * How many businesses in the US?
 * 28,000,000 but 21,000,000 don't have any employees (2016 census)
 * Very roughly multiply by 4 or 5 to estimate the # in world
 * Detailed data from 2012 business census

Examples

 * Miss Spicer's Lemonade Stand
 * What does it take to get an article on Wikipedia?
 * Mud Coffee
 * One of 225+ NYC "restaurants" with articles
 * 10+ NYC pizzerias
 * Ray's Pizza
 * Donut Diner
 * Hypnotic Donuts
 * World's Best Donuts
 * 1 store in small town far north MN
 * open only in summer
 * some good national reviews, orphan, 1 RfD - 2 votes
 * Pincho Man
 * "one of Miami's top five food trucks"
 * "you like food trucks? Well, this dude’s been serving food out of his unmarked white truck from undisclosed locations since..." don't know when
 * Beneva Flowers
 * Small flower store in Sarasota, FL
 * Open on Sundays
 * Karolina Laskowska
 * Won an award
 * One person online lingerie seamstress
 * Our article started January 2015
 * Business 2014 - Sept. 2017
 * Spanish Fly Pro, a deleted article on a specific brand of Spanish fly.
 * Binary options and/or retail forex
 * Banc De Binary
 * FXCM
 * TFI Markets
 * TFIFX - online version of above