Paying to create an article is a scam:
Re:25 Years of Wikipedia
by qingcharles on Friday January 16, 2026 @02:23PM
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It's more nuanced than that. Wikipedia allows payments in some situations as long as they are public:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Connected_contributor...
The editor who massaged the article in question has it somewhere on his profile that he accepts payments and has a list of articles he has taken payment for.
Re:25 Years of Wikipedia
by Gander5739 on Friday January 16, 2026 @08:05PM
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Could you provide their username, please? I'd ba interested.
Apparently you can pay a high-ranking Wikipedia editor to massage your article into the site. I know a Hollywood producer who paid to get himself listed.
What amazes me most, though, is that I still find new subjects to write about that don't exist yet on Wikipedia.