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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)[reply]
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)[reply]
