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There is information on the page that the company has not promoted. Mainly what colors the
Funkeys come in, and how rare each color is. They won't tell you this because they would rather you find out after you use them. This is one of the selling features, so this proves that it's not being promoted,
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Blatant advertising. Pages which exclusively promote some entity and which would need to be fundamentally rewritten to become encyclopedic. Note that simply having a company or product as its subject does not qualify an article for this criterion.
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I do not see the U.B. Funkey page as a promotion for the toy. It makes no claims about the toy or sponsors it in any way. The page only expains the game and characters.
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Intrapromote, the commercial spammers who wrote it, where you already responded that it's not you.
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The page is set up as an encyclopedic entry. It details how the game is played. It has a biographic entry for each Funkey race. It is not selling anything.
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Thank you for your help. I read the pages linked to this one and based my reason to keep on them. I added it to the end of the list. --
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