In 2013 we discovered a number of administrators from India who secretly had conflicts of interests and were using Wikipedia for PR. Today, we reveal another.
You can ask me about sources. We probably all know what “reliable” means, and claims may cite any reliable source (even sources written by the subject of the article if the fact is uncontroversial). However, for an article to be included in Wikipedia, and mainly so that it’s possible for the article to be improved so that it conforms with Wikipedia’s guidelines, articles must pass “notability” (a misnomer, see efforts to change its name); the biggest component of notability that’s most often failed is that there is enough coverage in reliable sources not written by the subject, and that’s precisely so that we won’t have an article that’s entirely the subject’s own puffery that turns out to be false or egregiously biased. (Not an admin because I probably have too short a temper, but nonetheless experienced.)
You can ask me about sources. We probably all know what “reliable” means, and claims may cite any reliable source (even sources written by the subject of the article if the fact is uncontroversial). However, for an article to be included in Wikipedia, and mainly so that it’s possible for the article to be improved so that it conforms with Wikipedia’s guidelines, articles must pass “notability” (a misnomer, see efforts to change its name); the biggest component of notability that’s most often failed is that there is enough coverage in reliable sources not written by the subject, and that’s precisely so that we won’t have an article that’s entirely the subject’s own puffery that turns out to be false or egregiously biased. (Not an admin because I probably have too short a temper, but nonetheless experienced.)