User talk:Openiworld

Commercial use of Image:Gopc logo.png
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Spam
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Fair use rationale for Image:Gopc scrn shot.jpg
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Conflict of interest
It appears that this account exists solely to promot gopc.net. Please see WP:NOT and WP:COI. Wikipedia is not to be used for marketing and it is inappropriate for you to link to your own site, etc. --Yamla 16:12, 20 June 2007 (UTC)

Re: Accusations of SPAM and Conflict of interest
I thank you for providing feedback on my talk page rather than arbitrarily deleting my content without any justification as someone did to me yesterday.

Firstly, I'm new to editing on wiki which is why I may appear to have broken some guidelines. I'm still trying to get to grips with what is acceptable and what is not and I don't quite understand the 'fair use' policy or the licensing of images - but I guess I'll work that out eventually.

Please be assured that I have not setup this account merely to spam wiki or market products - that's not my intention at all.

As I said, I'm a newbie but my aim is to eventually provide the same level of information (or at least provide the foundation of information) that exists for projects like OpenOffice for a new project called GoPC

While I realize that I should probably start with a fresh article, being new, I'm a little hesitant to rush straight in. As I said, I had a post deleted yesterday with no information as to why and that was rather frustrating given the time that I spent learning about how to edit, what to edit and where to edit - only to have it removed before I even got a chance to finish it.

Yes, I'm involved in GoPC but no, I have no interest in marketing it - just to provide a public platform for information. The number of people using GoPC is escalating exponentially and many people are both asking questions and demonstrating that they have information about the system that can be shared with others.

I firmly believe that the edits I've made so far are valid amendments to information that exists on wiki. For example, there is a table of comparison between various office packages. Within the list of features for Open Office (an organization that I have no affiliation with) various functionalities were entered as "no". However, GoPC helps extend the functionality of this third party software so the answer can definitively be changed to "yes".

I guess I'll need to go through my recent edits and see what's been deleted without a given reason and discuss these in the talk pages of each section.

However, my initial impression of wiki as a newbie editor is that it's all to hard - you can spend a lot of time making legitimate edits only to have somebody with a ego and a sticky delete button rip it down.

I have nothing commercially to gain from the posts that I've made these last couple of days. If I did, I would have attached an affiliate string to each of the links or something. Besides which, GoPC is basically free to the general public anyway.

Orphaned non-free image (Image:Gopc scrn shot.jpg)
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