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Formerly, the MyWikiBiz enterprise offered to author encyclopedic articles about companies and products. These articles could be published under terms of free, copyleft licenses, in hopes that other free content sites (like Wikipedia) could copy them for wider use.

Prices were set at $49 for short, stubby articles; $79 for longer articles with citations and infoboxes; and $99 for more robustly researched articles with categories and external links, as well as posting on various free user-generated directories.

Over the span of August through October of 2006, MyWikiBiz created content for about 10 articles that found their way to Wikipedia. Three of them were disclosed to the "powers that be" at Wikipedia, which led to two of them being deleted, and the remaining one being savaged by Jimmy Wales, with an administrator later plagiarizing the original work and trying (unsuccessfully) to claim it ab initio as his own.

The other seven articles that were not disclosed??? All are beautifully residing to this day within Wikipedia, thoughtfully tended to by the editing community.

Therefore, we at MyWikiBiz have concluded that content decisions at Wikipedia are not at all about "the quality of the contribution", but rather, "the provenance of the contribution".

If you are thinking about publishing content within Wikipedia that you suspect may come under fire for "conflict of interest" reasons, you are advised to contact MyWikiBiz for advice and possible assistance, at:

ResearchBiz (at) gmail (dot) com

Even as recently as the First Quarter of 2010, we have authored Wikipedia articles in exchange for payment -- even despite a community "ban" on my editing Wikipedia. It can be done, folks. You simply can't ever breathe a word of it. That's the secret.