[bjourne]

There is a set of policies that Wikipedia is supposed to follow when it comes to deciding if a page should be in or not. Nothing in this set of policies disqualifies a page if it benefits a company. Or even if it was written by employees of that company.

Thus, Wikipedia is violating its own policies. It follows that decisions on whether a page should be created becomes arbitrary which opens up the door for corruption. Some company pays Wikipedians and get their page(s) created, others don't and don't get any page(s).

[TallGuyShort]

I don't disagree with anything you said, but I mentioned the benefit because the blog explicitly denies any benefit. But the reviewers do call out a conflict of interest. They criticized it because it read like an ad, and I agree. I've seen other Apache projects (looking at Drill) that read like an ad, and it's annoying.