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Re:25 Years of Wikipedia by qingcharles on Thursday January 15, 2026 @09:00PM (#46642132)
It's getting really hard now. I've been editing since day one. Recently I had awful trouble getting a new article accepted. I gave up for some months and came back and it was accepted first time.

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.

Re:25 Years of Wikipedia by could-of on Friday January 16, 2026 @01:24PM (#46649922)
Paying to create an article is a scam:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Scam_warning

Re:25 Years of Wikipedia by qingcharles on Friday January 16, 2026 @02:23PM (#46650877)
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 (#46654298)
Could you provide their username, please? I'd ba interested.