 | This article was nominated for deletion on 12 September 2007. The result of the discussion was No Consensus. |
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- [1] * Omaha World-Herald. March 14, 2006. Online firm NetShops seeks 150 new workers. Deborah Alexander * [2] * Omaha World-Herald. November 18, 2006. Omaha-based online retailer acquires optics Web sites. Virgil Larson * [3] * [4] * Duluth News Tribune. November 30, 2006. Netshops reaps big profits from cyber Monday sales. Section: Business; Page C9. * [5] * [6] * [7] * [8] * [9] * [10] * [11] * Omaha World-Herald. (June 26, 2007) Google course clicks at Metro Matthew Hansen. * [12] * Google Web Search Is A Game-Changer In Advertising Field -- Jreferee t/c 21:31, 27 September 2007 (UTC)
Discussion Thread edit
Wow, I can see why they want to delete this article. Just look at the history and you can see the failure of Wikipedia. Loads of people add some fact to the article. The executives at the company get scared and delete the fact. People add it back claiming that an encyclopedia can't choose which truths to print and which to omit and still be objective. The execs assign minions to monitor the page and remove anything that makes the company look bad.
Well, sometimes the truth does make things look bad. That doesn't mean it's not objective or truthful. If Wikipedia was around in 1936, all references to the Holocaust would be deleted as NPV or not encyclopedic. The fundamental problem with Wikipedia is that as soon as it became popular, governments and companies started using it for marketing and propaganda. Since governments and companies have far more resources than individuals and can hire people to "manage" articles 24/7, articles always end up being a white wash version of history that makes the people in power look good. Sure, there's always a history of an article (until it gets "deleted"), but we all know that the most recent version is the only one that counts because 99% of the time people don't look through the history.
This is a fundamental problem with Wikipedia, and I'm sure the entire web community would like to hear what, if anything, Wikipedia can do to stop this problem. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.108.139.201 (talk) 05:48, 21 March 2008 (UTC)
This activity is still going on currently, as evidenced by the most recent deletion of factual layoff information by a possible Netshops sock puppet. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.252.30.104 (talk) 14:56, 7 December 2008 (UTC)
In point of fact, most of NetShops employees are NOT temporary, so that information was removed. Non-biased phrasing of the actual number of layoffs from 2007 was added in, and the article has been "wikified."