User talk:Aridnyk89

Notability of Doctor Steel

A tag has been placed on Doctor Steel requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done because the article appears to be about a real person, organization (band, club, company, etc.), or web content, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is notable: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, articles that do not indicate the subject's importance or significance may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable. If this is the first page that you have created, then you should read the guide to writing your first article.

If you think that you can assert the notability of the subject, you may contest the deletion by adding {{hangon}} to the top of the page (just below the existing speedy deletion or "db" tag), coupled with adding a note on the article's talk page explaining your position, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the article meets the criterion it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would confirm the subject's notability under Wikipedia guidelines.

For guidelines on specific types of articles, you may want to check out our criteria for biographies, for web sites, for bands, or for companies. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. Orange Mike | Talk 13:07, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

Follow the links above. Make your case, quickly, in the article's talk page; then get the substantive references necessary to meet the criteria under WP:BAND, and put it into the article. The present article makes him sound like a cosplayer at an anime convention, not a serious musician*. If the article is deleted in the meantime, contact me (and the deleting admin) and we can discuss it. --Orange Mike | Talk 13:21, 27 March 2008 (UTC) (*no offense to the Doctor; my idea of serious musician includes Frank Zappa, Tom Lehrer, Weird Al and Peter Schickele)

The talk page is no longer protected. In the past, we have had some serious problems with fans of the Doctor who mistook Wikipedia for some kind of roleplay forum, and started shrieking "Abuse!" when we held this article and its subject matter to the same standards as other articles on Wikipedia. I hope this unhappy history is not repeated. --Orange Mike | Talk 13:43, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

Please note that most websites are not considered reliable sources. Print media, especially more mainstream sources like Rolling Stone and Spin, are a better bet. --Orange Mike | Talk 14:05, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

The "references" are still not properly formatted; read WP:CITE! Also, you need to concentrate on the notability of the musician, not on the petty details of his persona's fan universe. (That was part of why the last article about him got deleted.) And I repeat yet again: new posts go on the bottom, not the top, of a talk page; and sign your posts by clicking the signature button (10th from the left) above the edit box. --Orange Mike | Talk 19:18, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

March 2008

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, one or more of the external links you added to the page Doctor Steel do not comply with our guidelines for external links and have been removed. Wikipedia is not a collection of links; nor should it be used for advertising or promotion. Since Wikipedia uses nofollow tags, external links do not alter search engine rankings. If you feel the link should be added to the article, please discuss it on the article's talk page before reinserting it. Please take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia.  

Your edit here was reverted by an automated bot that attempts to remove unwanted links and spam from Wikipedia. If you were trying to insert a good link, please accept my creator's apologies, but note that the external link you added or changed is on my list of links to remove and probably shouldn't be included in Wikipedia.

The external links I reverted were matching the following regex rule(s): rule: '\bmyspace\.com' (link(s): http://www.myspace.com/doctorsteel) . If the external link you inserted or changed was to a blog, forum, free web hosting service, or similar site, then please check the information on the external site thorougly. Note that such sites should probably not be linked to if they contain information that is in violation of the creators copyright (see Linking to copyrighted works), or they are not written by a recognised, reliable source. Linking to sites that you are involved with is also strongly discouraged (see conflict of interest).

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) 12:58, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

Signing and posting

Hi there. In case you didn't know, when you add content to talk pages and Wikipedia pages that have open discussion, you should sign your posts by typing four tildes ( ~~~~ ) at the end of your comment. If you can't type the tilde character, you should click on the signature button located above the edit window. This will automatically insert a signature with your name and the time you posted the comment. This information is useful because other editors will be able to tell who said what, and when. Thank you! In addition, please add new comments, etc. to the bottom, not the top, of talk pages! --Orange Mike | Talk 14:05, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

Your recent edits

Hi there. In case you didn't know, when you add content to talk pages and Wikipedia pages that have open discussion, you should sign your posts by typing four tildes ( ~~~~ ) at the end of your comment. If you can't type the tilde character, you should click on the signature button located above the edit window. This will automatically insert a signature with your name and the time you posted the comment. This information is useful because other editors will be able to tell who said what, and when. Thank you! --SineBot (talk) 14:30, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

And PLEASE LEAVE YOUR MESSAGE AT THE BOTTOM, NOT THE TOP, OF THE PAGE --Orange Mike | Talk 14:33, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

Spamlinks

Never, never introduce spamlinks to vendors into an article here. It is toxic. --Orange Mike | Talk 20:00, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

Apologies

Sorry, I figured iTunes or Amazon would be on the "okay" list, but it looks like that wasn't the case. --Aridnyk89 (talk) 20:04, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

Speedy deletion of Doctor Steels Toy Soldiers

Please refrain from introducing inappropriate pages such as Doctor Steels Toy Soldiers, to Wikipedia. Doing so is not in accordance with our policies. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox

If you think that this notice was placed here in error, you may contest the deletion by adding {{hangon}} to the top of the page (just below the existing speedy deletion or "db" tag), coupled with adding a note on the talk page explaining your position, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the article meets the criterion it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would would render it more in conformance with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Lastly, please note that if the article does get deleted, you can contact one of these admins to request that a copy be emailed to you. Dethme0w (talk) 03:15, 28 March 2008 (UTC)

Doctor Steel

I'd encourage you to keep finding sources for these articles. My view is that the Toy Soldiers article is very non-notable in the grand scheme of things and will likely be deleted at some point in the near future by another administrator, so be ready for that; Doctor Steel itself has been through a number of deletion discussions and deletion reviews, the most recent having been in November, where a lot of the sources in that article were rejected as being not notable. Frankly, the new sources don't look great to me either. I suspect there will be a discussion regarding that article soon unless you can find more mainstream and larger sources regarding Doctor Steel.

As for the Doctor Steel article, it looks to me like there's too much in-universe information there; it should really stay clear of getting into his shtick too much and discuss facts about him and his music, backed up by the sources. Just some words of advice. Tony Fox (arf!) 03:34, 30 March 2008 (UTC)

I think we'll have to see if the article stands up for any length of time before unprotecting any of the similar titles. Tony Fox (arf!) 03:41, 30 March 2008 (UTC)