logoalt Hacker News

qingcharles01/16/20261 replyview on HN

It's getting really hard now. I've been editing since day one. Recently I had awful trouble getting a new article accepted. I gave up for some months and came back and it was accepted first time.

Apparently you can pay a high-ranking Wikipedia editor to massage your article into the site. I know a Hollywood producer who paid to get himself listed.

What amazes me most, though, is that I still find new subjects to write about that don't exist yet on Wikipedia.


Replies

could-of01/16/2026

Paying to create an article is a scam:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Scam_warning

show 1 reply