User talk:GoHappyNeedo

Help me!
Hi. What is the fastest way of getting an article out of Draft and into a normal "article space"? Is it possible to find someone to do it for you?

GoHappyNeedo (talk) 13:25, 12 February 2018 (UTC) Needo (Community Manager at Mechanic Miner)
 * Reviewed. Declined. Stop trying to use Wikipedia to promote your product. Yunshui 雲 水 13:47, 12 February 2018 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Mechanic Miner (February 12)
 Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Yunshui was:

The comment the reviewer left was:

Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit when they have been resolved.


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Yunshui 雲 水 13:44, 12 February 2018 (UTC)

You have been blocked indefinitely from editing for violating Wikipedia's Terms of Use through failing to disclose a paid conflict of interest. If you think there are good reasons for being unblocked, please read the guide to appealing blocks, then add the following text below the block notice on your talk page:. User:Yunshui (talk) 14:08, 12 February 2018 (UTC)

February 2018
Your addition has been removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without evidence of permission from the copyright holder. If you are the copyright holder, please read Donating copyrighted materials for more information on uploading your material to Wikipedia. For legal reasons, Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted material, including text or images from print publications or from other websites, without an appropriate and verifiable license. All such contributions will be deleted. You may use external websites or publications as a source of information, but not as a source of content, such as sentences or images&mdash;you must write using your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. Yunshui 雲 水 13:49, 12 February 2018 (UTC)

Help me!
Hi! I'm trying to get myself unblocked by resolving the issue I had by failing to disclose a paid conflict of interest, but I'm unable to declare a COI on my userpage as I'm not allowed to edit it. How do I do that? Also is there more I'm missing to do before I can request to be unblocked?

GoHappyNeedo (talk) 23:46, 12 February 2018 (UTC)


 * There are several problems here. Firstly, the paid editing disclosure, which you are willing to comply with. Secondly, copyright - unless you can provide evidence that the content in question was released by the copyright holder under a free license compatible with the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 license, putting copyrighted content on Wikipedia violates that copyright, or at the very least Wikipedia's copyright policy. Don't do that. Even if you could provide evidence of appropriate licensing, the content about your game was an advertisement and unsuitable for Wikipedia for that reason, too, so there's no need to bother with the license of that specific content. Beyond that (and the related issue that you used Wikipedia to host an ad for your game), there is the problem that there's no indication that the game is notable enough for a Wikipedia article in the first place. All of that can be summed up as: Wikipedia cannot have an article on the game, and it would likely be a very bad idea for you to write about other topics you are affiliated with. Are you, under those circumstances, still interested in editing Wikipedia? Then you can request another review of your block; it would help if you can indicate what you intend to to when unblocked. Huon (talk) 01:20, 13 February 2018 (UTC)

Help me!
Hi! This is a questions/response to the last request for help (answered by Huon 01.20 13 Feb). if this is not the right way to respond, please ignore this message and let me know. The problem about copyright: I'm the copyright holder of the text-content (which I wrote as a developer on Mechanic Miner). I can prove that by either you contacting the Mechanic Miner through the contact-information provided on our homepage or letting me know how we can contact you - would that be evidence enough? Further more I do not intend to use that content again anyway, as it is - as Huon pointed out - very much not suitable for Wikipedia, since it mistakenly looks like advertisement. I like to point out that I do not wish to promote or advertise the game (Mechanic Miner), I solely wish to have the game on Wikipedia so it gets recognized as a game - including on YouTube.

I've read the "Noteability" article that Huon linked, and I must conclude that Mechanic Miner at this time do not meet the requirements of being notable. But the community around Mechanic Miner is growing exponentially, and we have tens of thousands additions to our community each day. When the time comes, and the game will meet the requirements, will it make more sense for me to urge the community to create a Wikipedia article on Mechanic Miner, or will that be a problem relating to COI?

Concerning my ban. I still wish to become unblocked/unbanned, or atleast have my IP block lifted so the rest of the office can use Wikipedia properly. Furthermore I do intend to use my account to editing as I have done before the creation of my account.

Given the information above, would you say I have a proper case if I request another review of my block? Is there something else I should do, or should I just give up?

Greetings Needo

GoHappyNeedo (talk) 08:16, 13 February 2018 (UTC)
 * If the organisation is happy to donate the material (which would be what we require to comply with our licencing requirements) then they would need to do so by following the instructions at this page.
 * The issue regarding the unblock request will need to cover: What you did wrong (intentionally or otherwise), how you're going to prevent it happening again and to display sufficient understanding of he WP:COI and WP:PAID policies so that you know what you can/can't should/shouldn't be doing in relation to pages you have a conflict of interest in. Amortias (T)(C) 09:09, 13 February 2018 (UTC)