Talk:Orbital Sciences Corporation: Difference between revisions
Line 15: | Line 15: | ||
:Generally, PR practitioners should not edit articles directly. Either request the edits on the talk page, or draft the edits and ask an independent Wikipedian to move them to article. As a PR practitioner, I think I'd probably only do very minor edits like minor updates, or spelling corrections. [[User:I'm Tony Ahn|I'm Tony Ahn]] ([[User talk:I'm Tony Ahn|talk]]) 14:54, 9 April 2012 (UTC) |
:Generally, PR practitioners should not edit articles directly. Either request the edits on the talk page, or draft the edits and ask an independent Wikipedian to move them to article. As a PR practitioner, I think I'd probably only do very minor edits like minor updates, or spelling corrections. [[User:I'm Tony Ahn|I'm Tony Ahn]] ([[User talk:I'm Tony Ahn|talk]]) 14:54, 9 April 2012 (UTC) |
||
:There have been a total of three launch failures from Orbital Sciences (Ref: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/antares-rocket-explosion-wasnt-orbital-sciences-first-big-malfunction-180953177/?utm_source=twitter.com&no-ist ). Although the most recent failure is |
:There have been a total of three launch failures from Orbital Sciences (Ref: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/antares-rocket-explosion-wasnt-orbital-sciences-first-big-malfunction-180953177/?utm_source=twitter.com&no-ist ). Although the most recent failure is mentioned at the end of the introduction to the article, the others haven't been mentioned. I think the launch failures deserve mention in the "history" section. - [[User:Subh83| '''Subh83''']] <small>([[User_talk:Subh83|talk]] | [[User:Subh83/contribs|contribs]])</small> 03:35, 29 October 2014 (UTC) |
Revision as of 03:36, 29 October 2014
![]() | This article is of interest to the following WikiProjects: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Please add the quality rating to the {{WikiProject banner shell}} template instead of this project banner. See WP:PIQA for details.
Please add the quality rating to the {{WikiProject banner shell}} template instead of this project banner. See WP:PIQA for details.
Please add the quality rating to the {{WikiProject banner shell}} template instead of this project banner. See WP:PIQA for details.
|
PR Editing: Ethical or Not?
Edits have been made to this page by Ricochet PR, Orbital's PR firm. The changes include moving references to launch failures out of their own section into a section describing one of the company's business units. The move could be considered appropriate since the failures are related to that business unit, or could be PR slight-of-hand since the references have been minimized and would most likely be missed by those doing a quick scan of the article. This follows an attempt by someone at Orbital trying to remove references to the failures entirely.
The PR firm has been transparent in stating in the Edit Comments that the changes were made on behalf of their client, and the verbiage of the launch failures was only slightly altered during the move. Based on this, I haven't moved the references back to their own section.
What is the current consensus among editorial staff and users? Is this type of activity accepted practice, questionable or just plain wrong? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Krikiter (talk • contribs) 12:41, 9 April 2012 (UTC)
- Generally, PR practitioners should not edit articles directly. Either request the edits on the talk page, or draft the edits and ask an independent Wikipedian to move them to article. As a PR practitioner, I think I'd probably only do very minor edits like minor updates, or spelling corrections. I'm Tony Ahn (talk) 14:54, 9 April 2012 (UTC)
- There have been a total of three launch failures from Orbital Sciences (Ref: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/antares-rocket-explosion-wasnt-orbital-sciences-first-big-malfunction-180953177/?utm_source=twitter.com&no-ist ). Although the most recent failure is mentioned at the end of the introduction to the article, the others haven't been mentioned. I think the launch failures deserve mention in the "history" section. - Subh83 (talk | contribs) 03:35, 29 October 2014 (UTC)