Quote from: midnightmagic on October 02, 2017, 06:24:02 AM

The purpose of the commercial links in the Wiki, early on, was to give a special boost to commercial entities who accepted Bitcoin in order to reward them for coming on-board so early, and to encourage others to do so. There is no longer any reason to do thatsimple Google and other search engines are better at it, and paid listings were done, and better, at other sites anyway.

Can you not see the problem with this?

It's like... if you started a new company with $10, got really large and then you past a law that new companies need $1000 to be a "thing".

These "big companies" wouldn't be as big as they are now without the leverage and they can afford to market the ways you described. Part of Bitcoin is getting the communities support... I thought. These big companies and such don't need help paying for advertising. Scammers can always afford ads because they make the highest margins... Bitcoin.it seems like much less of a target than Google Adsense etc.

I know I used/still use the Wiki a ton for this type of stuff Undecided

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So you are removing all these Mom and Pop places, but I seriously doubt you are going to touch the Coinbase Business page or https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Trading_bitcoins. (mind you I don't think you should delete either of those pages, but I don't think you need to kill a shitton of Mom and Pop places in order to "protect" people from scams that haven't happened yet...)

Quote from: midnightmagic on October 02, 2017, 06:24:02 AM

some commercial aspects should remain in place.

Either do it to everything or nothing IMO... Using one persons personal judement call on entire industries being removed seems a bit scary.

Quote from: midnightmagic on October 02, 2017, 06:24:02 AM

The commercial aspect of it can't be verified; it can't be patrolled; it can't be vouched-for. All it is is a linkdump/liability.

Quote from: midnightmagic on October 02, 2017, 06:24:02 AM

What's the point when we can't do these businesses the justice and courtesy of effort they deserve?

I thought Bitcoin.it wiki page gives these businesses a chance to give them self justice and courtesy their own wiki pages as well as they think it deserves? Everyone contributes that wants to contribute.

Also, noobs that simple couldn't do a wiki page use this as well...

I'm the perfect example of this noob example... I knew I wanted to be a part of Bitcoin, but I couldn't keep bots from destroying my Wiki page! I know I can safely afford to post my Bitcoin related thing on this nice little Wiki just for Bitcoin. I trust Bitcoin.IT MUCH more than anyone off Freelancer.com or whatever I'd need to use to make a FreeBitcoins.com wiki page.