User talk:Soulburner

Managing a conflict of interest
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Editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. GSS (talk |c|em ) 16:31, 5 June 2019 (UTC)

June 2019

 * Hi there! I'm going to ping the administrator who blocked your account (Yunshui) so that he/she can answer your questions above. :-) Yunshui, who is this user a sock puppet of? Is/Was there an SPI report created for this case? (Please ping me in your response here, as I'm not actively watching this page)  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   09:43, 6 June 2019 (UTC)
 * I suppose those happened after somebody have removed the page of my gamedev studio Lazy Bear Games by some strange reason (saying "paid edits"). I've tried to roll back that deletion and got a ban. I suppose he's thinking I'm a sock puppet of the author of that page. That's the only reason I can imagine. Soulburner (talk) 11:05, 6 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Also noticed that the same (Yunshui) just added the "paid edits" banner on the page of one of our games Punch Club. Don't know what's happening here, but the only reason I can imagine is that somebody dislike our studio/games and wants to wipe it out from Wikipedia. Soulburner (talk) 11:15, 6 June 2019 (UTC)

cf, a confirmed paid editor employed by this company, although I'll grant that, given the timescales, that account ought to be viewed as a sock of this one, rather than the other way around. Yunshui 雲 水 11:19, 6 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Ok, that's a really strange situation. I know nothing about . This is my personal account, I've just looked at my profile and the email was confirmed on September 2007 and that's my personal email, my personal nickname I use everywhere over the internet. The email looks like the account name. The only thing I made is tried to restore the page of my company that was removed... Soulburner (talk) 11:32, 6 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Pinging Yunshui. See Soulburner's reply above.  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   11:50, 6 June 2019 (UTC)
 * I imagine this user knows BananasReborn under their Upwork username - or are you going to deny soliciting for an "Experienced writer to create Wikipedia entries about a game developer studio and their project"? Yunshui 雲 水 12:34, 6 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Yunshui I know nothing about Upwork and this project. I didn't order anything. But I know that can't prove anything here... Anyway, the initial reason was that I was called a puppet and banned for that. And that is totally not true and I believe my account (email verification date, geographical IP data (I'm from Russia and can't make pages in English) data can prove that. Soulburner (talk) 13:11, 6 June 2019 (UTC)
 * In April, Lazy Bear or someone representing them posted an Upwork advert asking for the creation of a page, to which BananasReborn responded. Within 24 hours of me placing a block on BananaReborn's account, this account, which had been dormant for over three years, suddenly reappeared and recreated the page. Coincidence only goes so far, and so I am content to treat all accounts editing on behalf of your company, whether they are owned by you, someone working for you, or freelancers you have hired, as sock- (technically meat-) puppets. Yunshui 雲 水 13:39, 6 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Yunshui Yesterday I was interviewing a community manager that said that we don't have a wiki page. I got surprised because I remembered we got that before. I noticed that the page was removed. I logged in my very old account and restored that page, also adding the link to the studio page on the Punch Club page. I don't know exactly how wikipedia work, I did know nothing about Upwork, about BananasReborn or his ban. Maybe I shouldn't do that (I'm not familiar with the rules). Also, if you think I'm a sock puppet of that wiki-writing professional, would that professional do such stupid thing as restoring his article using an almost empty account the day it was removed? I think only a total amateur like me could do that :) Soulburner (talk) 14:01, 6 June 2019 (UTC)


 * I see the decline reason saying that I have admitted ordering paid articles. That's even more strange. I believe I did not say anything like that. Сontrariwise, I said for the several times that I didn't order anything and know nothing about Upwork. Soulburner (talk) 13:00, 7 June 2019 (UTC)