Craig Newmark donates $500k to reduce harassment on Wikipedia
In 2012 I wrote my first Wikipedia article on the 50-person startup I was working for at the time. I didn&#x27;t include anything overly self-promoting, just the basic facts and referenced some news articles. My article was immediately nominated for deletion and a number of community members accused me of being a &quot;single purpose account&quot;, i.e. not interested in contributing, just advertising. Needless to say I did not go on to create&#x2F;edit more articles after a welcome like that.<p>A couple of editors did come to my defence. I got the impression there was a lot of internal conflict about this sort of thing.<p>Edit to add the following:
The article: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Ecobee" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Ecobee</a>
Deletion discussion: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion&#x2F;Ecobee" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletio...</a>