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 | This page in a nutshell: If you are a PR or marketing professional, you should probably just accept the reality that Wikipedia is not the place for you to write about your clients and move on to something more productive before you embarrass yourself. |
If you are a marketing or public relations professional who has been directed to this essay after trying to market for a client on Wikipedia, please realize the reality of the situation: You are in the wrong place. You won't succeed at doing your job here, and trying to do it is only going to annoy the unpaid volunteers who maintain this encyclopedia. It will probably backfire on you and your client, and potentially make both of you look bad. Wikipedia has standards and rules that do not allow what you and your client want on it. It would be best that you just accept this and do your job elsewhere. The intent of this essay is just to help you understand this.