There are times, reading some Wikipedia articles on certain companies or sectors, one wonders who could write them. Their language is so much like institutional communication or even advertising ...
For example, Wikipedia article about Wolters Kluwer group .
Well, who created it initially? Wikipedia has a history of all changes to an article . So here it is an anonymous IP address 194.200.130.2 that first wrote this article on October 28, 2005.
We note that in the initial version of this article, 194.200.130.2 writes: "Our [I underline] products span the full range of traditional and electronic publishing". Ah good.
It should also be noted that all the contributions of 194.200.130.2 only cover two topics: the professional edition (articles Wolters Kluwer therefore, but also Professional Edition, Pearson, Thomson) and the legal sector (articles Avocat ( profession), Chief Justice, Clerk). And wish, by chance, the article Professional Edition was created by this same 194.200.130.2 . And for 194.200.130.2, there are only two major players in the legal and tax publishing world : WK and LexisNexis, of course. Ah good.
Not so anonymous, the IP address. A little tour on an IP address resolver (IP resolver) and we learn that it corresponds to the gateway.croner.co.uk server . Or croner.co.uk is the site of a British brand of Wolters Kluwer , specializing in HR and health and safety. So it is an employee WK UK, with a level of very correct French certainly, who wrote the sheet on his group. Ah good.
Add that the contrast is striking with the sobriety of articles Dalloz , LGDJ or LexisNexis - article which, in parentheses, forgets to name Wolters Kluwer as one of its main competitors ... In the history of this article , no anonymous contributions calling investigation.
We can stop there, right?
Do not infer as far as Wikipedia is 99% biased. Just that on certain subjects (companies, politicians, controversial / ideological subjects, etc.), the articles of WP are to be taken with tweezers and a certain critical spirit. And that the big international legal publishers look after their communication.
Moreover, there are a lot of companies or individuals like celebrities, politicians or business owners who keep looking for someone who is able enough to create a wikipedia page for them or their company. I would suggest such people to lookout for Wikipedia editors for hire if they really are willing to get a wiki page created. Or they can directly get in touch with Prowikicreators.com.
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