User talk:Fishlabs

September 2011

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. Everyone is welcome to make constructive contributions to Wikipedia, but at least one of your recent edits, such as the one you made to Fishlabs, did not appear to be constructive and has been automatically reverted (undone) by ClueBot NG.

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The following is the log entry regarding this warning: Fishlabs was changed by Fishlabs (u) (t) ANN scored at 0.85425 on 2011-09-12T13:23:07+00:00 . Thank you. ClueBot NG (talk) 13:23, 12 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

January 2012

Welcome to Wikipedia. Everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia. However, the username you have chosen (Fishlabs) seems to imply that you are editing on behalf of a group, company or website.

There are two issues with this:

It is possible that you have a conflict of interest. In keeping with Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy, you must exercise great caution when editing on topics related to your organization or adding links to its website.
Your account cannot represent a group of people. You may wish to create a new account with a username that represents only you. Alternatively, you may consider changing your username to avoid giving the impression that your personal account is being used for promotional purposes.

Regardless of whether you change your name or create a new account, you are not exempted from the guidelines concerning editing where you have a conflict of interest. For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have a conflict of interest, please see our frequently asked questions for organizations. The article in question is Galaxy on fire. Thank you. "Fishlabs" is the name of the software development company you have been editing articles related to, and violates our limitations against group names as usernames Nat Gertler (talk) 15:50, 19 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Please choose another username that does not reflect the name of your company

This account has been blocked indefinitely from editing Wikipedia because your username, Fishlabs, does not meet our username policy.

Your username is the only reason for this block. You are welcome to choose a new username (see below).

A username should not be promotional, related to a "real-world" group or organization, misleading, offensive, or disruptive. Also, usernames may not end in the word "bot" unless the account is an approved bot account.

You are encouraged to choose a new account name that meets our policy guidelines. Alternatively, if you have already made edits and you wish to keep your existing contributions under a new name, then you may request a change in username by:

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If you feel that you were blocked in error, you may appeal this block by adding below this notice the text {{unblock|Your reason here}}, but you should read our guide to appealing blocks first. --MuZemike 01:42, 22 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hey guys, sorry for the inconveniences. I thought that it might actually be helpful for the "Fishlabs" and "Galaxy on Fire" articles, if they'd be posted by a reliable source (namely our company), but apparently that's not the case and it's against Wikipedia guidelines to post information about subjects you're personally involved in. However, both articles in question have been written from a neutral point of view and if you take a look at them, I hope you'll see that there is no conflict of interest here and that I've not been using Wikipedia as a promotion tool to advertise our products but rather as a means to give gamers from all over the world some easy-to-find and easy-to-access pieces of information about our company and our most popular IP. It would be nice if you'd change the username to "KeithTMaxwell" (a character from the Galaxy on Fire saga) and unblock this account again, so that I could continue to keep the articles up-to-date and add new info (e.g. new games, add-ons, etc) in the future. Thanks & Sorry for the trouble...

This user's request to be unblocked to request a change in username has been reviewed by an administrator, who declined the request. Other administrators may also review this block, but should not override the decision without a good reason (see the blocking policy). Do not remove this unblock review while you are blocked.

Fishlabs (block log • active blocks • global blocks • autoblocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))

Requested username:

KeithTMaxwell (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

Decline reason:

Despite the fact that the blocking administrator has, for some reason, given you a block notice saying "Your username is the only reason for this block", that is not, in fact, the only issue, nor even the main issue. 100% of your editing, apart from this unblock request, has been about your own business and its products, and much of it has been unambiguously promotional. Your edits have repeatedly contained such language as "one of the most ambitious and critically acclaimed sci-fi shooters available", "beautifully rendered", "enthralling", "huge variety of premium games", "first-class", and so on. If, having written that kind of stuff, you sincerely believe that your contributions have been "written from a neutral point of view", that "there is no conflict of interest", and that you have "not been using Wikipedia as a promotion tool" then you are so blind to the character of your own writing that you are unlikely ever to be able to stand back and edit from the neutral perspective that is required. In addition to the user name issue, you are now blocked for using Wikipedia for promotion, and you should not be unblocked unless and until you indicate that you intend to edit on some other topic other than your own business and products. JamesBWatson (talk) 11:34, 30 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hey, thanks for letting me know. The information I'd like to add in the future is all pretty objective, neutral and un-promotional as it's basically just new titles (in the list of games) and, if they're Galaxy on Fire-related, short descriptions of the backstory/plot of new spin-offs and add-ons. I thought that all Wiki entries are being checked for an objective tone / neutral presentation of the subject matter anyway, so to be quite honest, I don't really understand what I have done wrong as the articles themselves do clearly not violate any guidelines, do they?

As for the examples you mentioned, they've all been part of the very first text I ever published at Wikipedia and have all been removed/corrected months ago. I agree that this first text was indeed unsuited for Wikipedia and definitely were of a promotional nature, however, I've changed all that right away and have made sure that the latest entry, on Galaxy on Fire, did indeed not contain any such praises and unsuited phrases at all. So the edits have not been repeatedly promotional at all but rather have they been promotional in the very beginning and changed right away when you guys told me what's OK and what's not OK to write on Wikipedia. So at least in that point you gotta admit that I changed all the unsuited content right after I got informed about it and didn't post any other unsuited content afterwards. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Fishlabs (talk • contribs) 12:12, 30 January 2012‎

OK, I accept that the examples I gave were not typical of the way you have been editing recently. However, I still think that, if you wish to make another unblock request, it will be helpful if you can indicate more clearly what editing you do expect to do. You clearly have a potential conflict of interest. It is difficult to see, for example, your creation of Galaxy on fire (now moved to Galaxy on Fire (series)) as anything but an attempt to use Wikipedia to publicise your business's product. JamesBWatson (talk) 14:59, 30 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hi James, thanks for your reply. I understand your position and agree that it seems kinda awkward if I keep posting about our own products only. To be honest, I never thought this was too much of a big deal in the beginning. The first Wikipedia page for our company was rather inclomplete, so I just added some infos and later on thought it might not be a bad idea to add a wiki page about our most popular title, Galaxy on Fire, and its sequels and spin-offs as well. As for upcoming edits, there's actually not that much Fishlabs-related stuff I'd still like to add in the future, except for updating the list of games whenever we've released a new title or adding a brief summary of the main story whenever we've put out a new add-on or sequel for the GOF series. Though I'd still like to keep the Fishlabs and Galaxy on Fire wikis up-to-date, I agree that I shouldn't post solely about our company and products, so what do you think about a little deal: I'll change the username to something that's got nothing to do with Fishlabs or Galaxy on Fire and will from now on contribute to at least two other topics first, before I make any company-related entries. That way I could still provide the Galaxy on Fire fans with firsthand information about the game, but also contribute to a number of other topics that have nothing to do with Fishlabs, but are still of interest for me (i.e. stuff that I know enough about to make a valuable contribution). Anyway, hope we can work something out and sorry again for the inconveniences.