User:Petebertine/Sandbox

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[edit] Cassworld

Cassworld, an early social network, was founded in 1998. In the spring of 2007 Cassworld launched a viral marketing campaign to preserve The Neversink Gorge from high impact development and to place High Falls and the Neversink River corridor in a "development free zone." As a result major land development was thwarted and a group of dedicated individuals was formed to save High Falls.

Wikipedia editors - How can I make the above page for Cassworld? This was a very significant achievement brought on by successful viral marketing that raised the plight of High Falls to an international level and the creation of a company, Philwold International, with a corporate charter to purchase and preserve the falls and river corridor.

There is no major press about this situation, yet. However, there are enough documents and interviews to validate Cassworld's important contribution and ongoing attempt to save High Falls.

I've hit a number of pitfalls:

I tried to write a page about Hillary Flowers Designer Collective as an example of an artist collective that has been established with Cassworld's help. HFDC has a lot of "press" and it was my attempt to try to establish a cassworld page based upon the work done with HFDC. I was not successful in creating a decent page about HFDC and grew reluctant to continue as I do not want to be seen as trying to promote commercial ventures.

I had made some contacts at Vice Magazine and vbs.tv to try to get a story about Ben Wechsler and High Falls published and they aksed me how I was able to create content in Wikipedia without getting black listed. I honestly told them that I didn't know and they asked me to help them get off the blacklist. When I looked into it and shared what I learned they said if I got them off the black list they would run a story. I stopped working with them.

I'm overwhelmed and I need some guidance from the wikipedia community. I am trying to write the story of the Neversink Gorge as it happens. I do not want to promote Ben Wechsler or any one individual. Please help me illustrate the complex story around this important piece of land.

--Petebertine (talk) 17:35, 2 May 2008 (UTC)