ChristophMinnameier

June 2023

Hello ChristophMinnameier. The nature of your edits 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:ChristophMinnameier. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=ChristophMinnameier|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. 331dot (talk) 07:01, 13 June 2023 (UTC)

Hi! I understand the problem of COI and I'm sorry if it appeared to you as if I didn't fully disclose, which I tried to the best of my knowledge.

When I created the page for DungeonsOfDreadrock I was asked whether I was somehow personally involved in the topic and I selected 'yes'. I was further asked to add the following line to my user page {{UserboxCOI|1=Dungeons of Dreadrock}} which I did. I'm not 100% sure whether I did that correctly, but when I click "Edit Source" on top of this page (my user page) I can still see the line.

I'm happy to further disclose:

I'm Christoph Minnameier (this is my real name) and I am a German game design professor who made the game (Dungeons of Dreadrock).

As I said, I'm aware of the COI problem and I'm not here to advertise the game. However, I feel the game (as a Google IGF winner among others with significant press ocverage) has earned its place on wikipedia. But of course, I'll let you be the judge of that. As an academic, I consider myself capable of writing fact-based and neutral about the topic, despite my involvment. But of course, I'll let you be the judge of that, too once I submit the draft.

Also, I will abstain from editing it further until I get notice from you on what I did wrong and how to fix it.

Thanks for your work on wikipedia. ChristophMinnameier (talk) 13:26, 13 June 2023 (UTC)

Thank you for your answer. I was just asking if you were being compensated in any manner related to your edits. If you are not, there is no further issue. 331dot (talk) 20:02, 13 June 2023 (UTC)

Ah okay thanks for clarifying, no I'm not. I'll proceed with the page setup then and submit it for review. ChristophMinnameier (talk) 18:21, 14 June 2023 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Dungeons of Dreadrock (June 15)

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: 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:Dungeons of Dreadrock 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) 10:41, 15 June 2023 (UTC)

Thanks for your input, I'm happy to quote the sources you suggested. ChristophMinnameier (talk) 14:42, 15 June 2023 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Dungeons of Dreadrock has been accepted

Dungeons of Dreadrock, which you submitted to Articles for creation, has been created.

Congratulations, and thank you for helping expand the scope of Wikipedia! We hope you will continue making quality contributions.

The article has been assessed as Start-Class, which is recorded on its talk page. Most new articles start out as Stub-Class or Start-Class and then attain higher grades as they develop over time. You may like to take a look at the grading scheme to see how you can improve the article.

Since you have made at least 10 edits over more than four days, you can now create articles yourself without posting a request. However, you may continue submitting work to Articles for creation if you prefer.

If you have any questions, you are welcome to ask at the help desk. Once you have made at least 10 edits and had an account for at least four days, you will have the option to create articles yourself without posting a request to Articles for creation.

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Thanks again, and happy editing!

ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 19:53, 16 June 2023 (UTC)

Thank you! ChristophMinnameier (talk) 20:04, 16 June 2023 (UTC)