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Your submission at Articles for creation: The Plantain Incident (March 8)[edit]

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

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requires citations to secondary sources.

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microbiologyMarcus ^{[petri dish·growths]} 17:10, 8 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Mike Dowswell! 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! microbiologyMarcus ^{[petri dish·growths]} 17:10, 8 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Managing a conflict of interest[edit]

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Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. CommissarDoggo^Talk? 20:03, 8 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Plantain Incident[edit]

Hi there, you're obviously aware Wikipedia isn't the place to tell the world about your game, but I wonder if you've tried social media sites and the magic of hashtags. If not, maybe have a shot at promoting it on X/Twitter, Instagram, even TikTok, using hashtags so people browsing the tags might see it and want to play. Another thought might be to reach out to gaming YouTubers and ask if they'd be interested in a review copy of the game. Since you're not a big publisher (yet!) smaller channels will probably give you a better chance of someone being interested. And even smaller channels mean at least a few more eyes on the game, which is a great place to start. Good luck! StartGrammarTime (talk) 03:10, 10 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for the advice :) had not thought about smaller youtube gaming channels, that's a great idea. I've been doing quite a bit of hashtags recently, not having a lot of success (so far) over at Youtube, but i'll continue soldiering on, never give up never surrender. Thank you. 52.144.111.53 (talk) 14:06, 11 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]