User talk:Chad Habel

May 2013
Hello, I'm Soetermans. I wanted to let you know that I undid one or more of your recent contributions to Dragon's Dogma because it appeared to be promotional. Advertising and using Wikipedia as a "soapbox" are against Wikipedia policy and not permitted. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about Wikipedia. Thank you. Soetermans. T / C 14:12, 15 May 2013 (UTC)

Hello, I'm Soetermans. I wanted to let you know that I undid one or more of your recent contributions to Tomb Raider (2013 video game) because it appeared to be promotional. Advertising and using Wikipedia as a "soapbox" are against Wikipedia policy and not permitted. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about Wikipedia. Thank you. Soetermans. T / C 14:14, 15 May 2013 (UTC)

Hi Soetermans, thanks for getting back to me on this. I understand the reason the edit was pulled and I can see that on the face of it, it would have looked like a soapbox or advertising as it links to a site I run (which at the moment is rather small). However I was wondering if you might reconsider this? The reason is that the site is explicitly not intended as personal soapbox or advertising front: what I aim to do with Serious Gamer is make an objective contribution to the discussion and debate around games and culture generally. You can see from the "Mission and values" page that the site is non-commercial, and that the edits I made on Dragon's Dogma and Tomb Raider seek to add to the knowledge and perspectives on these games in the same way that other review sites have done. Serious Gamer aspires to reasoned, well-thought out perspectives on games rather than biased or uninformed views, and in this way is appropriate to Wikipedia's aims of enhancing the store of human knowledge.

For these reasons I hope you may reconsider allowing me to post on Wikipedia in this way. Thanks for your time and consideration - I'm happy to discuss this further if you wish.

Thanks, Chad Chad Habel (talk) 09:26, 22 June 2013 (UTC)