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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.
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, and two of those were deleted, and the remaining one was savaged by [[Directory:Jimmy Wales|Jimmy Wales]], with an administrator later plagiarizing the original work and trying (unsuccessfully) to claim it ''ab initio'' as his own.
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 [[Directory:Jimmy Wales|Jimmy Wales]], with an administrator later plagiarizing the original work and trying (unsuccessfully) to [[Criticism_of_Jimmy_Wales#Tolerance_of_plagiarism|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.
The other seven articles that were not disclosed??? All are beautifully residing to this day within Wikipedia, thoughtfully tended to by the editing community.
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Even as recently as the Fourth Quarter of 2008, we have authored a few articles in exchange for payment that were copied by others into Wikipedia. It '''can''' be done, folks. You simply can't ever breathe a word of it. That's the secret.