Arbitrary decisions are a huge problem in Wikipedia. We get round this problem at Newslines by replacing notability with newsworthiness. If someone has news written about them then it is suitable for inclusion.
All of which were basically from the same small, inexpensive PR campaign.
Wikipedia runs a serious risk of becoming a commercial echo chamber (if it hasn't already).
What're you guys doing at Newslines to prevent it from turning into a vehicle for self-promotion?
And getting into Wikipedia has some obscure benefits that make it worthwhile.
The problem arises on Wikipeida because its editors act as fact checkers. But your idea of what a fact is can be quite different from mine. On Newslines we create the archive and let the reader decide what is true, by marking claims as claims.
Very few bloggers break original news. If they do we can add it as a source.