User talk:Mstromberg

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March 2012[edit]

Removed bad links[edit]

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, your addition of one or more external links to the page Kineti-Go has been reverted.
Your edit here to Kineti-Go was reverted by an automated bot that attempts to remove links which are discouraged per our external links guideline. The external link(s) you added or changed (http://www.boardgames.about.com/od/chitag/ig/chitag2006/kineti_go.htm, http://www.boardgames.about.com/b/2006/05/01/kineti-go-four-questions-with-michael-stromberg.htm) is/are on my list of links to remove and probably shouldn't be included in Wikipedia.
If you were trying to insert an external link that does comply with our policies and guidelines, then please accept my creator's apologies and feel free to undo the bot's revert. However, if the link does not comply with our policies and guidelines, but your edit included other, constructive, changes to the article, feel free to make those changes again without re-adding the link. Please read Wikipedia's external links guideline for more information, and consult my list of frequently-reverted sites. For more information about me, see my FAQ page. Thanks! --XLinkBot (talk) 15:20, 3 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

The bot is right. Ask.com is a user-edited site, full of many errors, so it is not a reliable source and cannot be used for source citations in articles here. — SMcCandlish Talk⇒ ɖ∘¿¤þ Contrib. 06:38, 6 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Conflict of interest[edit]

Hello Mstromberg. We welcome your contributions to Wikipedia, but if you are affiliated with some of the people, places or things you have written about in the article Kineti-Go, you may have a conflict of interest or close connection to the subject.

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Please familiarize yourself with relevant content policies and guidelines, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, verifiability of information, and autobiographies.

For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have a conflict of interest, please see our frequently asked questions for organizations. Thank you. —C.Fred (talk) 15:04, 3 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

In particular, aside from your generally promotional writing about your own product, you attempted to link to an interview with yourself here as if it were a reliable independent source. You need to stop trying to use Wikipedia as a vehicle for promotion. Neither you nor you company nor your product are notable (yet). It's like trying to publish an encyclopedia article about your garage band or your personal blog. When "Kineti-Go" becomes wildly popular and lots of magazine articles about it are published and it can be found in major toy stores and Wal-Mart/Target/K-Mart, then it will be time to think about a Wikipedia article about it. — SMcCandlish Talk⇒ ɖ∘¿¤þ Contrib. 06:38, 6 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination of Kineti-Go for deletion[edit]

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