User talk:Stratboy61

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Hello, Stratboy61, and welcome to Wikipedia. We appreciate encyclopedic contributions, but some of your recent contributions, such as your edit to the page GamePlay (game engine), seem to be advertising or for promotional purposes. Wikipedia does not allow advertising. For more information on this, please see: If you still have questions, there is a new contributors' help page, or you can. You may also find the following pages useful for a general introduction to Wikipedia: I hope you enjoy editing Wikipedia! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically produce your name and the date. Feel free to write a note on the bottom of my talk page if you want to get in touch with me. Again, welcome! - MrX 00:52, 1 October 2015 (UTC)
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Hi there, I have just been contacted by MrX who made the (very correct) remark that I may have edited a couple of pages in wikipedia for promotional purposes. I must admit that it is true. I added two entries, one in the GamePlay page and the other one in the NDE page.

I just released a commercial video game whose theme is the Near Death Experience (NDE). The game was released under my company, KSCM Consulting, which is a legally registered LLC in France. The game uses the GamePlay engine. I had seen a new section in the GamePlay page that was about "Projects employing GamePlay" ; I thought that it was legitimate to add my game to the list. I now see that the whole section disappeared, so I assume that it is considered a promotion to list the projects made with this open source game engine.

However, I can see that another game engine such as OGRE does have a Notable games and other programs using OGRE section.

Today, NDE Rescue (the game) is not famous at all and I could understand that, because of this reason, it should not appear on wikipedia --especially on the NDE page.

Could you please let me know whether I should remove the video games section that I created in the NDE page or I can leave it ? If it must be removed, could you please tell me what must be the criteria so that a video game about NDE appears in the NDE page ?

Thank you in advance for the clarifications !

Stratboy61 (talk) 09:53, 1 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Ultimately, the content on wikipedia must meet WP:42 and WP:GNG, and be properly referenced by independent news/magazine/book sources. As soon as anything meets the notability guideline and can be confirmed, it can be added to Wikipedia, if it's not a notable game - it doesn't have a place on Wikipedia. Furthermore, adding external links to the body of an article isn't usually allowed (see WP:MOS), if it had an article it would be perfectly fine to link to it, as the game would be notable. -- Kethrus &#124;talk to me 11:20, 1 October 2015 (UTC)


 * Kethrus is correct. To include material about the video game in an article, there should be some independent sources that have written about it, in the context of the subject of whatever article you wish to place the content in. In my opinion, the lists of films, books and television shows under the "In popular section" should be removed, because there are no secondary references indicating the relevance to the subject, or their significance. - MrX 15:04, 1 October 2015 (UTC)


 * okay, got it ! Sorry for the extra work generated by my lack of reading the guidelines. Cheers.Stratboy61 (talk) 09:27, 2 October 2015 (UTC)