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Wikipedia question

Zascar · 2008-08-23 11:52:15

I was looking for something no Wikipedia yesterday - more information on a guy called "Andrew McAffee" - who is one of the worlds experts on "Web 2.0" and "Enterprise 2.0". I was surprised there was nothing there so I copied an pasted some text from his bio on the Harvard Business School website, hoping this may be a good…

23-08-2008 11:52am

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Zascar

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I was looking for something no Wikipedia yesterday - more information on a guy called "Andrew McAffee" - who is one of the worlds experts on "Web 2.0" and "Enterprise 2.0".

I was surprised there was nothing there so I copied an pasted some text from his bio on the Harvard Business School website, hoping this may be a good starter and people might add to it.

Unfortunately it got deleted swiftly after. I really don't know much about Wikipedia and how to write proper articles etc

I'm wondering if there is a way to suggest articles like this that other people might want to contribute to?

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#2 23-08-2008 11:55am

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Might be an idea to check out the following:

Article Development
Why was my article deleted?

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#3 23-08-2008 11:56am

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They don't like blanket copying and it also possibly looked like spam / self-promotion. They lso test how necessary it is to have wiki page about "ordinary" people.

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