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A fact from Preference-based planning appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 28 June 2010 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Wikipaedia articles suffer from a lot of non-notable people's names inserted into articles as academic references: could we please have a policy against product placement, such as showing Starbucks in an unrelated article (especially one which appears on the front page? Jezza (talk) 14:51, 28 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Non-notable people's names inserted into articles? They're simply the authors of the publications which have been used as references. Also, I don't see a particular problem with using Starbucks in an example. I'm simply using the same example as the one given in the scientific publication and besides that, it is a well-known coffee shop. If I have an example about someone who "wants to buy fast food", should I avoid mentioning McDonald's? It just gives the article some flavor rather than "to visit a fast food restaurant". Suggesting another policy for this type of trivialities is what drives new people away from Wikipedia. Let me be clear that I am against obvious advertising but I don't see a problem with using well-known names in examples.
If we do introduce a policy for it, what purpose would it serve? For those cases where someone is pushing their own company/product? We already have policies for that, in the same way that we have policies against linkspamming your own website. - Simeon (talk) 00:27, 29 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
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