[jpdoctor]

> I really don't understand wikipedia's continued hesitation to accept advertising

Try to think of an example where editorial maintained independence from the sales department.

My favorite example from dead-tree newspapers: For all the noise they make about the sacredness of editorial, I don't think it was a coincidence that the number of articles about the bubble in real estate were inversely proportional to RE advertising dollars.

[gujk]

Do you have any research about this inverse proportion? The bubble was in the news the whole time. People just didn't care. http://seattlebubble.com is entirely funded by real estate advertising.

[jpdoctor]

> The bubble was in the news the whole time.

Not from 2002-2005. By that point, it had already surpassed bubble prices of 1989 in real dollars.