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The Forum Rules
do have this:
- No advertising.
- Do not post for the sole or primary purpose of advertising your own or any third-party site or product.
- New accounts are restricted from posting external links for a short period of time to prevent spamming. Attempting to circumvent this by putting links in your signature may be grounds for a ban.
- All external links should be relevant to the conversation in which they are occurring.
I think mentioning one's own works/things they made where it's relevant/on-topic should be fine, advertising is more like "buy my thing", and it's more about "don't just be here to draw people elsewhere".
I think "promoting" in the context of that first link is meant to mean either (1) gushing on the wiki (which has its places like Fanfic Recommendations, Gushing About Shows You Like, etc.) or (2) being on the site only to plug other people's works. I otherwise don't see the problem. These are my good assumptions, though that post is from late 2017.
When you're alone I'm reaching out to let you know that you're far from strangers, like the savior

Remind me what the official stance on it, aside making wiki pages. What I mean is that I feel this
and this
post contradict each other.