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Exhibit 1043

Letter from Cooley LLP (for the Wikimedia Foundation) to Wiki-PR, "Wiki-PR and Paid Advocacy Editing"

Exhibit 1043 ยท Correspondence

Letter from Cooley LLP (for the Wikimedia Foundation) to Wiki-PR, "Wiki-PR and Paid Advocacy Editing"

recently banned Wiki-PR and its agents from further editing the Wikipedia site. The ban, adopted on October 25, 2013, reads as follows:

Three-page letter published by the Foundation. Counsel states an opinion, based on evidence to date, that agents of the company used sockpuppets or meatpuppets to make articles appear written by unbiased sources, and that this violates the Terms of Use. The letter reproduces the community ban adopted on 25 October 2013 and states that the community consists of volunteers operating separately from the Foundation. The letter states counsel's position and potential claims; it is not a court finding.

Source
Cooley LLP on behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation
Date
19 November 2013
Quoted from
Page 2, paragraph 3
Grade
Primary record
Document
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/6/6b/2013-11-19_C%26D_letter_to_WikiPR_from_Cooley.pdf
Accessed
2026-11-10
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Findings citing this exhibit
Note
The PDF is an image; the quoted wording was checked against the page images. The counsel's opinion sentence, the Terms of Use statement and the statement that the community consists of 'independent volunteers operating separately from the Wikimedia Foundation' are also on page 2.

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Finding INF-3.10
Primary record Volunteer editors banned Wiki-PR on 25 October 2013, and counsel for the Wikimedia Foundation wrote to the firm on 19 November 2013 that undisclosed paid advocacy editing violates the Terms of Use. The Foundation amended the Terms of Use on 16 June 2014 to require paid editors to disclose their affiliation, and on 31 August 2015 it reported that volunteer editors had blocked 381 accounts and deleted 210 articles in the Orangemoody investigation of undisclosed paid advocacy.