Final Session – Wikipedia Clinic

This is a working session, so I won’t try to post very much, but if you have an issue with your page on Wikipedia, or a competitor’s page (which is probably more likely), you have several options as far as bringing suspect content to the attention of the Wikipedia P. D., but probably the best place to go is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Adopt-a-User . 

This is where you can ask an experienced Wikipedia volunteer to Adopt You and show you the ropes.  Why make a blunder trying to fix a blunder?  Get some good, free advice first.  “What might take you hours to find / figure out, a mentor could probably tell you in five minutes.”

Note: Wikipedia is not the place for original content.  The content must first be in a blog post,  online media, or some other source so that it can be *cited* in Wikipedia.

Danny Sullivan just searched for himself in Wikipedia, and there is a race car driver also named Danny Sullivan.  So, in the spirit of the Wikipedia Clinic, I’m going to conclude my coverage of this Search Marketing Expo (SMX) conference with this search:

Charles Knight, from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Charles Knight may refer to:

Charles Knight (publisher), an English author and publisher
Charles Knight (soldier) Lieutenant-Colonel during the Waterloo campaign
Charles Landon Knight, an American lawyer and publisher
Charles F. Knight, American chairman of Emerson Electric
Charles R. Knight, an American artist who specialized in dinosaur paintings

Drat! No Wikipedia page for me -yet.  

End of Session Ten.

End of Conference.

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