User talk:STICLI

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Proposed deletion of Airport Master (video game)


The article Airport Master (video game) has been proposed for deletion&#32;because of the following concern:
 * Unreleased video game (WP:CRYSTAL), no indication of meeting WP:GNG

While all constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, content or articles may be deleted for any of several reasons.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. RA 0808 talkcontribs 21:30, 30 November 2016 (UTC)

Nomination of Airport Master (video game) for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Airport Master (video game) is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Articles for deletion/Airport Master (video game) until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. RA 0808 talkcontribs 22:56, 30 November 2016 (UTC)

Notice of Conflict of interest noticeboard discussion
This message is being sent to inform you that there is currently a discussion at Conflict of interest/Noticeboard regarding a possible conflict of interest incident in which you may be involved. The thread is STICLI. Thank you. Stikkyy (talk) 01:35, 1 December 2016 (UTC)

There have been two problems identified with this account: the account has been used for advertising or promotion, which is contrary to the purpose of Wikipedia, and your username indicates that the account represents a business or other organisation or group, which is also against policy, as an account must be for just one person. Because of those problems, the account has been blocked indefinitely from editing.

If you intend to make useful contributions about some topic other than your business or organisation, you may request an unblock. To do so, post the text at the bottom of your talk page. Replace the text "Your proposed new username" with a new username you are willing to use. See Special:CentralAuth to search for available usernames. Your new username will need to meet our username policy. Replace the text "Your reason here" with your reason to be unblocked. In this reason, you must:
 * Convince us that you understand the reason for your block and that you will not repeat the kind of edits for which you were blocked.
 * Describe in general terms the contributions that you intend to make if you are unblocked.

If you believe this block was made in error, you may appeal this block by adding the text at the bottom of your talk page, but you should read the guide to appealing blocks first. Alexf(talk) 13:41, 1 December 2016 (UTC)

A few things... In short, I think it is very unlikely that any admin would unblock you to write about your game at this point. To be unblocked to do other things, you would have to satisfy Wikipedia's username requirements and the "one person per account" rule at the very minimum. As it stands, without a request for a change of username, your current unblock request is certain to be declined. Boing! said Zebedee (talk) 10:33, 8 December 2016 (UTC)
 * I'm sorry, but you don't get to insist on anything. In fact, it's already deleted.
 * Wikipedia is an encyclopedia (click that link if you do not know what one of those is), not a place for companies to promote their products, or a fandom or social media site.
 * Wikipedia does not allow group accounts, only accounts for individuals wanting to help us develop the encyclopedia.
 * Wikipedia does not allow accounts in the names of groups, organizations or companies.
 * If you wish to continue editing, you would need to request a new username as explained in the block message, one which represents only one person.
 * You would need to assure us that only that one person will have access to the account.
 * The individual who would continue to use the account would clearly have a conflict of interest, and so would need to agree to abide by Wikipedia's WP:COI guidelines.
 * Wikipedia only hosts articles about subjects that satisfy some minimum standards of notability (see WP:N, specifically WP:GNG) as supported by multiple independent reliable sources (see WP:RS).
 * The article you created was tagged with the reason "Unreleased video game (WP:CRYSTAL), no indication of meeting WP:GNG", so you will need to understand WP:CRYSTAL too.
 * The article also had no independent references at all and showed no evidence of notability.
 * There was also a discussion at Articles for deletion/Airport Master (video game) in which the community consensus was to delete - you can read the reasoning there.

On a slightly philosophical tangent, you say "It sounds like the policy you mention rewards guerilla tactics over honest approach", and you have hit on a key issue there. The Wikimedia Foundation and the individual Wikipedia communities do not want the encyclopedia(s) to be used for commercial promotion. Against that, there is the inevitable desire for companies to get themselves and their products included in one of the web's biggest and arguably most influential sites. How do we deal with that tension? The English Wikipedia community has decided to prohibit group or company accounts, but to allow individuals from companies to have their own personal accounts and require them to declare their conflict of interest if they write about anything related to their company. The German Wikipedia allows companies to have accounts, but again they must be declared. My personal feeling is that the German approach is possibly more effective, as a company that is open to intense scrutiny would be more likely to stick to Wikipedia's "no promotion" policy than one forced to work via individual accounts. But it's a thorny subject, and one that has consumed many thousands of hours in discussion, and in my admin capacity I can only act in accordance with English Wikipedia policy as it currently stands. Boing! said Zebedee (talk) 10:58, 8 December 2016 (UTC)

Did you not see the part in the block message that instructs you to use to request a new username? You will certainly not be unblocked if you do not do at least that. And what sources are good enough? Independent ones offering in-depth coverage of your game, not your own accounts on other web sites! Boing! said Zebedee (talk) 11:02, 8 December 2016 (UTC)