User:Spingames

Thank you for your recent reply. We are still concerned by some of the information, including links and foot notes with the name and address of an independent salesman for our company, but dropped out of sight and who aparently initiated the information about our company in Wikipedia;. Our FunSpin product 'Wall Street Spin" is patented in both the U.S. and Canada as well as registered as trademarked with the U S Patent and Trademark Office. As founder of the company along with my wife as inventors of all of our pruducts we are concerned about this apparent violation of our trade mark and patent. We are aware of the rules of Wikipedia and agree with them, the links in the material go directly to his business site where he is offering our product at prices not approved by us. Additionally, since we control all of our product, we know that Mr. Dorrough could not actually sell any of our product since we have not recently sold him any. What is happening though, is that some of his customers are calling us very irate because he has taken orders which he had not shipped and we have had to honor his promises at prices lower than are normal rates. Please remove all links or reference to his hame and address in the footnotes of each page so that your rule concerning Coyrights can be honored. We would like to insert a private non business email address of "bdeitch@MSN.com in place of the links he used .Thank you Donald T Deitch Spingames (talk) 03:12, 6 January 2008 (UTC)

I appreciate and understand your concerns. It is clear that if anyone should receive credit for your product, it is yourselves. However, as far as Wikipedia is concerned, there are two principal issues; (1) is your game notable enough to warrant an entry? and in this respect we editors have to be guided by existing policy in that there must be sufficient independent and verifiable references to establish that; as you will see, I have already found some references, but personally I would prefer to see more and I have it pencilled in to seek more. (2) Assuming (1), can this game be described in encyclopedic terms which is more than just a "how-to", or an advertising puff? For this reason, I would recommend that you do not edit the article yourselves, because this would be regarded as a conflict of interest, and certainly linking to your own website for sales purposes, would be seen as spamming. Please bear with me that I have the article itself on my watchlist, and I am likely to see any changes to it, wherever they originate, within a reasonably short time. Please also understand that I am not here to advocate your position either; we are not here to take sides, and for that reason, your email address would be an inappropriate addition to the article. For the time being, the stance I will take is that I will investigate the above issues, attempt to establish the game's notability, and rewrite the article as a completely unbiased assessment. Any external links I add will also be independent and verifiable. But you also have to bear in mind that Wikipedia is not a promotional website and if I come across sustainable criticisms of your game, that must be addressed by the article, as, for example, in the Electronic Arts or MacDonald's articles. Hope that helps. --Rodhullandemu (Talk) 03:50, 6 January 2008 (UTC)