I have been using Wikipedia.com more and more over the last 6-8 months. If you are not familiar with this site, it is a free encyclopedia that anyone can edit. I find that it has some great and useful information on it. Just look at the page on Leasing. If you are an expert on leases and you want to edit that page - just sign in and start editing! Pretty cool, isn’t it?
Of course the first thing I tried was to create a page about rentals and add a link to my site. But the page did not last long because the volunteers that monitor site thought it was spammy. It didn’t hurt to try - right?
Why would I want a link from Wikipedia? Because Google loves Wikipedia pages so in turn if Wikipedia is linking to you then Google might love your site just a little more.
I looked to see if my top competitors were in Wikipedia, I saw that they were not, so that made me feel better. 
I guess if I made a truly awesome page on Wikipedia and did not try to link to my site, they would have kept it, but then where is the fun in that? i
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Hi. I just came across your blog today and have had a similar experience. I managed to keep the link to my site active on Google after a lengthy discussion with some wikinazis. Soon competitors found my link and added theirs, and the wikinazis decided to remove all of the links.
It appears that linking to a free/open source document on a commercial website is against the rules regardless of the quality of information.
Hi Dave,
I had three wiki links to my Hawaii Real estate sites beach pages http://www.adrhi.com/waikiki-beach.asp, http://www.adrhi.com/kailua-beach.asp and http://www.adrhi.com/koolina-lagoons.asp. They were up there since last October and I went and tried to ad more to other areas and the Wiki editors removed them all. I should have left well enogh alone and I would have still probably had them. Lesson learned is not to be greedy!
I was able to sneak one link in on Wiki for a friend on a very odd niche. It has not been been touched and we noticed a nice pop in the rankings after it was added.
That is great!