One of the challenges facing business writers on Wikipedia is the credo of “no original research.” As an encyclopedia, Wikipedia collects information which has already been published in reliable sources and organizes it according to its neutrality policy. Much of the information that a freelance business writer or company employee may wish to add to a Wikipedia entry is summarily dismissed as original research and removed, because no such third-party sources exist. This also relates to such things as testimonials: “Unsourced material obtained from a Wikipedian's personal experience, such as an unpublished eyewitness account, should not be added to articles. It would violate both this policy and Verifiability, and would cause Wikipedia to become a primary source for that material.”
Read more ...