Editing a Wikipedia Article is Exasperating

I am trying to edit a Wikipedia page. the one about "Business Process Automation" to be exact.

Specifically, there is a section in there that talks about tools. Now, Karora Technologies, a company I co-founded and still am involved with in an advisory capacity, has been developing one of these tools since 1998 and it has been quite successful with it. I'm thinking hmmm... Shouldn't I add a link to Karora's tool on this page? After all, there are already several other competing vendors and their products listed.

My first attempt was this:

Karora Technologies provides a product [http://www.karora.com/products/appconnector] that supports desktop mashups. Originally developed in 1998, it is now in use in many manufacturing and health care organizations helping automate organizational processes that typically span "silos" such as accounts payable or forms processing.

Mr Ollie subsequently rejected this with the reason "promotion of specific product".

Ok, fair enough. So I removed the link, and tried again:

[[Karora Technologies]] provides a product known as AppConnector that supports desktop mashups. Originally developed in 1998, it is now in use in many manufacturing and health care organizations helping automate organizational processes that typically span "silos" such as accounts payable or forms processing.

I even created a page for Karora. This was rejected ("promotional spam") and the page deleted. I would of thought that not linking to the product specifically, and providing additional information about where BPA is useful would have been Ok.

The thing that bugs me about this is that the ones that are already there are about specific products and are no more or less promtional than what I was attempting to put up there. Wikpedia Quality Control Fail. Me Fail.

Comments

[Brian]

I have to agree with your frustration and point out that it is a flaw seen in the rest of the world we live in as well. Clubs, trends, anything that involves people and ideas. A few rules get set and those rules prevent future occurrences of things already occurred (which unfairly remain). ex post facto?