User talk:Happierall

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Speedy deletion nomination of Draft:PlayCode

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A tag has been placed on Draft:PlayCode, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page seems to be unambiguous advertising which only promotes a company, group, product, service, person, or point of view and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become encyclopedic. Please read the guidelines on spam and Wikipedia:FAQ/Organizations for more information.

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Welcome!

Hello, Happierall, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions.

I noticed that one of the first articles you edited appears to be dealing with a topic with which you may have a conflict of interest. In other words, you may find it difficult to write about that topic in a neutral and objective way, because you are, work for, or represent, the subject of that article. Your recent contributions may have already been undone for this very reason.

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One rule we do have in connection with conflicts of interest is that accounts used by more than one person will unfortunately be blocked from editing. Wikipedia generally does not allow editors to have usernames which imply that the account belongs to a company or corporation. If you have a username like this, you should request a change of username or create a new account. (A name that identifies the user as an individual within a given organization may be OK.)

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Conflict of interest

Hello, Happierall. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a conflict of interest may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. We ask that you:

avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, colleagues, company, organization, clients, or competitors;
propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (you can use the {{request edit}} template);
disclose your conflict of interest when discussing affected articles (see Wikipedia:Conflict of interest#How to disclose a COI);
avoid linking to your organization's website in other articles (see Wikipedia:Spam#External link spamming);
do your best to comply with Wikipedia's content policies.

In addition, you are required by the Wikimedia Foundation's terms of use to disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution which forms all or part of work for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation. See Wikipedia:Paid-contribution disclosure.

Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. --Yamla (talk) 11:15, 9 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Here is the correct username.

I confirm that do not have any compensation for this article. Happierall (talk) 12:28, 9 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Come on. You have a direct conflict of interest. You need to address this according to WP:COI. --Yamla (talk) 12:40, 9 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your response. I acknowledge that Wikipedia is typically considered an extensive repository of knowledge covering numerous subjects. Nonetheless, it is surprising that a website like playcode.io has been absent from its content for the past seven years.

I realize there are issues with spam and abuse. But if countless users of playcode are unable to locate it on Wikipedia, shouldn't we provide them with accurate information about this resource? Ruslan.PlayCode (talk) 12:47, 9 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

This actually makes matters worse, not better. You are using multiple accounts. See WP:SOCK. The problem with your article is that you shouldn't be writing it. I mean, also the article was inappropriate, but the key point here is that you have a direct conflict of interest. Your very next edit must be to declare your conflict of interest, as explained in WP:COI. You also need to pick a single account and stick to it. --Yamla (talk) 13:13, 9 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The answer to your question is no, because Wikipedia is not a resource for producers of products to provide information to users of their products; that is a task for your own web site to perform. Furthermore, the pages you have created were much more like material aimed at people who are not yet using the product, to persuade them to do so, than like provision of information about the product to people who are already users of it; in other words, it was marketing copy. You have now been informed of Wikipedia's guideline on conflict of interest and the policy on promotional editing twice, on the talk pages of two different accounts. Almost all of us, when we start editing Wikipedia, know little or nothing about Wikipedia's policies and guidelines, so nobody can be blamed for starting out doing things that are contrary to policies and guidelines that they don't know about. However, continuing to do the same things after being told about the relevant policies and guidelines is a different matter. If you continue to act contrary to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines you are likely to be blocked from editing by an administrator. JBW (talk) 13:25, 9 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]