User talk:Czarnrad

This user, in accordance with the Wikimedia Foundation's Terms of Use, discloses that they have been paid by TeradGames for their contributions to Wikipedia.

Concern regarding Draft:Astro Colony

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Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia. FireflyBot (talk) 18:05, 11 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Your draft article, Draft:Astro Colony

Hello, TeradGames. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Astro Colony".

In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been deleted. If you plan on working on it further and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.

Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 17:49, 8 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

August 2022

Hello TeradGames. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Draft:Astro Colony, gives the impression you have an undisclosed financial stake in promoting a topic, but you have not complied with Wikipedia's mandatory paid editing disclosure requirements. Paid advocacy is a category of conflict of interest (COI) editing that involves being compensated by a person, group, company or organization to use Wikipedia to promote their interests. Undisclosed paid advocacy is prohibited by our policies on neutral point of view and what Wikipedia is not, and is an especially serious type of COI; the Wikimedia Foundation regards it as a "black hat" practice akin to black-hat search-engine optimization.

Paid advocates are very strongly discouraged from direct article editing, and should instead propose changes on the talk page of the article in question if an article exists. If the article does not exist, paid advocates are extremely strongly discouraged from attempting to write an article at all. At best, any proposed article creation should be submitted through the articles for creation process, rather than directly.

Regardless, if you are receiving or expect to receive compensation for your edits, broadly construed, you are required by the Wikimedia Terms of Use to disclose your employer, client and affiliation. You can post such a mandatory disclosure to your user page at User:TeradGames. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=TeradGames|employer=InsertName|client=InsertName}}. If I am mistaken – you are not being directly or indirectly compensated for your edits – please state that in response to this message. Otherwise, please provide the required disclosure. In either case, do not edit further until you answer this message. Please note that merely declaring a conflict-of-interest without describing your employer, client, and affiliation does not satisfy our disclosure requirements. — Red-tailed hawk _(nest) 18:03, 15 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Red-tailed hawk,

Sorry, I honestly do not understand what do you mean with "gives the impression you have an undisclosed financial stake in promoting a topic".

In case I am doing something against Wikipedia's rules, please let me know, but I am very confused about it. Does it mean we - Terad Games - can not create a page about our own game?

What I can state is that I am "not being directly or indirectly compensated for [my] your edits".

Thank you in advance for your help!

Kind regards,

Terad Games TeradGames (talk) 17:50, 16 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Good evening Red-Tailed Hawk,

I am still waiting a reply about the Wikipedia page for Astro Colony. I have received no answer after my message in August.

Please let me know what am I suppose to do.

Thank you in advance!

Kind regards,

Terad Games TeradGames (talk) 18:39, 18 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Astro Colony moved to draftspace

An article you recently created, Astro Colony, is not suitable as written to remain published. It needs more citations from reliable, independent sources. (?) Information that can't be referenced should be removed (verifiability is of central importance on Wikipedia). I've moved your draft to draftspace (with a prefix of "Draft:" before the article title) where you can incubate the article with minimal disruption. When you feel the article meets Wikipedia's general notability guideline and thus is ready for mainspace, please click on the "Submit your draft for review!" button at the top of the page. – Pbrks ^(t • c) 18:02, 10 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you Pbrks, I will look into the guideline.

For how I do understand, I have to provide sources to the page to provide objective evidence (for example steam page, articles, Wiki fandom, video links, website links).

I am going to follow the steps you recommended and submit for review. TeradGames (talk) 18:47, 10 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Steam pages, fan run wikis, and Youtube are not reliable sources. We need sources from reliable, independent sources. – Pbrks ^(t • c) 20:57, 10 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I see, thank you, then I will add Metacritic and some articles about it.

Can I modify the draft, correct? Or am I blocked? TeradGames (talk) 23:01, 10 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

December 2022

Welcome to Wikipedia. Because we have a policy against usernames which give the impression that the account represents a group, club, organization, company, or website, I have blocked this account from editing. You are welcome to continue editing after you have chosen a new username that complies with Wikipedia's username policy.

You should also read our conflict of interest guideline and be aware that promotional editing is not acceptable, regardless of the username that you choose. Additionally, if your contributions to Wikipedia form all or part of work for which you are, or expect to be, paid or compensated in any way, you must disclose who is paying you to edit here.

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Thank you. 331dot (talk) 19:07, 10 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

This user's request to be unblocked to request a change in username has been reviewed by an administrator, who accepted the request.

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

Requested username:

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

Request reason:

request a username change of my current account TeradGames (talk) 19:15, 10 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Accept reason:

I have renamed your account. As you say you will make the paid editing disclosure, I will remove the block. 331dot (talk) 12:59, 11 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

That's fine, but what about the conflict of interest issues that were also part of the reason for the block? What is your connection to Terad Games? You used "we" ... can we be assured that one person alone will have the account per our policy? And if you can't edit about the company or its games, what else might you edit about? Daniel Case (talk) 06:31, 11 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Daniel Case, thank you for your answer!

I may need some clarification then, as I may then have misunderstood the "If you have a conflict of interest with the topic you are writing about, you should disclose it on the draft's talk page".

I am the developer of Astro Colony. I thought enough would have been declaring that there is "Conflict of Interest" (I selected that "This user has publicly declared that they have a conflict of interest regarding the Wikipedia article Astro_Colony").

Yesterday your colleague 331dot stated that there is a policy against username, which I totally understand, and that's why I asked to change it.

I suppose that what I am doing wrong is that I "must disclose who is paying you to edit here", even if I am not technically paid by anybody as I am the creator of the subject (the game Astro Colony), but that the situation is similar to be identified as "Sara Smith at XYZ Company"? I am very thankful that you are using your time and kindness to help me out! I may have overlooked the policy, I tried to follow the steps, but I probably misunderstood. TeradGames (talk) 09:32, 11 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Do you derive any income from your work as the developer of the game? That's paid editing, even if no one is specifically paying you to edit or asking you to edit. 331dot (talk) 10:16, 11 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Now it is clear, thank you very much!

Once my new requested username is going to be changed/approved, I can properly fill the "Template:Connected contributor (paid)" and "Template:Paid". TeradGames (talk) 12:46, 11 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation: Astro Colony (January 18)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Zxcvbnm was:

This draft's references do not show that the subject qualifies for a Wikipedia article. In summary, the draft needs multiple published sources that are:

in-depth (not just passing mentions about the subject)
reliable
secondary
independent of the subject

Make sure you add references that meet these criteria before resubmitting. Learn about mistakes to avoid when addressing this issue. If no additional references exist, the subject is not suitable for Wikipedia.

The comment the reviewer left was:

So far it seems like WP:TOOSOON and I am even more skeptical of its notability given that the article was written directly by the developer. It lacks the kind of critical reception that indicates lasting notability. Everything seems like fairly trivial coverage.

Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit after they have been resolved.

If you would like to continue working on the submission, go to Draft:Astro Colony and click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window.
If you do not edit your draft in the next 6 months, it will be considered abandoned and may be deleted.
If you need any assistance, or have experienced any untoward behavior associated with this submission, you can ask for help at the Articles for creation help desk, on the reviewer's talk page or use Wikipedia's real-time chat help from experienced editors.

ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 21:39, 18 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you WP:TOOSOON and ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ for reviewing the article.

I edit according to the issues raised: I added a Review section about the reception of the topic (with reference) and I have removed the sources that perhaps can only be considered as "quotations" of the topic. I do understand the skepticism - as it is written by a direct interested party -, so the type of contributions (conflict of interest) is clearly disclosed. Czarnrad (talk) 09:17, 19 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation: Astro Colony (January 27)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Blaze Wolf was:

This draft's references do not show that the subject qualifies for a Wikipedia article. In summary, the draft needs multiple published sources that are:

in-depth (not just passing mentions about the subject)
reliable
secondary
independent of the subject

Make sure you add references that meet these criteria before resubmitting. Learn about mistakes to avoid when addressing this issue. If no additional references exist, the subject is not suitable for Wikipedia.

The comment the reviewer left was:

Notability still has not been established. 1 source was removed and the reviews section is simply just steam reviews which are all usergenerated and unreliable.

Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit after they have been resolved.

If you would like to continue working on the submission, go to Draft:Astro Colony and click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window.
If you do not edit your draft in the next 6 months, it will be considered abandoned and may be deleted.
If you need any assistance, or have experienced any untoward behavior associated with this submission, you can ask for help at the Articles for creation help desk, on the reviewer's talk page or use Wikipedia's real-time chat help from experienced editors.

― Blaze Wolf^Talk_{Blaze Wolf#6545} 19:57, 27 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Czarnrad! Having an article draft declined at Articles for Creation can be disappointing. If you are wondering why your article submission was declined, please post a question at the Articles for creation help desk. If you have any other questions about your editing experience, we'd love to help you at the Teahouse, a friendly space on Wikipedia where experienced editors lend a hand to help new editors like yourself! See you there! ― Blaze Wolf^Talk_{Blaze Wolf#6545} 19:57, 27 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]