User talk:Manolis-videogamesmuseum

Hello, Manolis-videogamesmuseum. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on the page User:Manolis-videogamesmuseum/sandbox, 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 article subjects for more information. We ask that you:

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Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicizing, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. • a frantic turtle 🐢 12:18, 22 March 2026 (UTC)

Hello, thank you for your message. I would like to clarify that I am the owner and director of the Video Games Museum, so I do have a conflict of interest regarding this topic. I have now made a fuller disclosure on my user page.

Because of this connection, I submitted the page through Articles for Creation rather than creating a live article directly. I will avoid direct promotional editing and will follow AfC/community guidance. Thank you. Manolis-videogamesmuseum (talk) 08:50, 24 March 2026 (UTC)

Hello Manolis-videogamesmuseum. 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 employed (or being compensated in any way) by a person, group, company or organization to promote their interests. Paid advocacy on Wikipedia must be disclosed even if you have not specifically been asked to edit Wikipedia. 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 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 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:Manolis-videogamesmuseum. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Manolis-videogamesmuseum|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. Bobby Cohn 🍁 (talk) 13:09, 23 March 2026 (UTC)

I do see on your user page that you've declared a COI, but due to the nature of your username, would you mind clarifying if you have been paid for your work by or on behalf of the Video Games Museum? Thank you. Bobby Cohn 🍁 (talk) 13:10, 23 March 2026 (UTC)

Hello, thank you for your message. To clarify, I am the owner and director of the Video Games Museum, and I have now added a fuller disclosure on my user page regarding my connection to the museum.

Because of this conflict of interest, I submitted the draft through Articles for Creation rather than creating a live article directly. I will avoid direct promotional editing and will follow AfC/community guidance. Thank you. Manolis-videogamesmuseum (talk) 08:53, 24 March 2026 (UTC)

I've left a comment on your Articles for Creation submission, which can be viewed at Draft:Video Games Museum (Heraklion). Thanks! Greenman (talk) 10:37, 9 May 2026 (UTC)

Aw this is quite confusing for me... Can you help? What do you mean duplicate entries? The sources are different links.

Thank you Manolis-videogamesmuseum (talk) 13:13, 12 May 2026 (UTC)