User talk:Benjysponder

Advise me of changes to articles here!

Meetup in March
I see that you are listed as a participant in the WikiProject Melbourne. If you are a Melbourne resident I would appreciate your views on the suggested Meetup in March. Please give some indication of your interest, or otherwise, in the idea. Even a simple "No thanks" with your user name would be welcome and assist in assessing the level of support for a meetup. Thank you.. Cuddy Wifter 06:22, 28 February 2006 (UTC)

The Drones
Hey Ben. Nice to see a fellow Melburnite around... just a note on this article. You have made it filled with some incredible hyperbole, we're supposed to be presenting verifiable neutral information here, not press releases! "incendiary live shows"? "manic, poetic debut album"...."exuberant, soulful, harshly beautiful and darkly comical affair"? "huge praise all over the world"... come on. It needs to be toned way back. Whenever you're tempted to add an adjective, ask yourself: can this be verified? (Can you quote a music reviewer saying as much?) If so, add it, but add the verification as well. "Huge praise all over the world" should be pretty easy to source, right? So I expect you won't find that a problem. :)

cheers, pfctdayelise (translate?) 11:40, 21 June 2006 (UTC)


 * Oops, sorry for the false accusation then! Yeah, they do deserve a better article. When they won the AMP they didn't even have one! pfctdayelise (translate?) 02:12, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

Talk:Mooroolbark, Victoria
Hey Ben, nice to see another eastern suburbs editor. :) Please don't feel you need to ask before editing an article. No one owns articles on Wikipedia and you are more than welcome to jump in and make any changes you feel will improve the article. Please let me know if you ever need any help or information. Cheers, Sarah Ewart 14:42, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

I know you've been around for awhile, but I think you deserve a welcome and the links may be helpful:

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 * Just thought I'd give you a heads up that our IP editor is back :| Orderinchaos78 04:36, 24 December 2006 (UTC)

June 2007
A tag has been placed on Mooroolbark Football Club, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done because the article appears to be about a person, group of people, band, club, company, 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 assert the subject's importance or significance may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable.

If you think that you can assert the notability of the subject, you may contest the deletion. To do this, add  on the top of the page (just below the existing speedy deletion or "db" tag) and leave a note on the article's talk page explaining your position. 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. Bren talk 16:54, 10 June 2007 (UTC)


 * Thanks mate for not having bad feelings about it. Im trying to tidy up some of the Aussie footie articles and I just can't see how nearly all the regional AFL teams and leagues meet notability. I think the main cause is the AFL templates list every local league in red link. I'll talk to those guys about adjusting it to only show the prominent, notable AFL stuff. --Bren talk 10:08, 11 June 2007 (UTC)

Unreferenced BLPs
Hello Benjysponder! Thank you for your contributions. I am a bot alerting you that 1 of the articles that you created  is tagged as an Unreferenced Biography of a Living Person. The biographies of living persons policy requires that all personal or potentially controversial information be sourced. In addition, to ensure verifiability, all biographies should be based on reliable sources. If you were to bring this article up to standards, it would greatly help us with the current Category:All_unreferenced_BLPs article backlog. Once the article is adequately referenced, please remove the unreferencedBLP tag. Here is the article:

Thanks!--DASHBot (talk) 04:51, 15 January 2010 (UTC)
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Possible OR
In the article Gyroscope you added the following content "a giant step forward for the band, in that it saw them striding away from traditional rock templates and occasionally experimenting with drum machines, synth washes, lush harmonies and acoustic guitars". No citation was provided for this commentary which is an opinion about their album, Are You Involved?. Unless a reliable source is used, I intend to delete this sentence after a week from this note.shaidar cuebiyar (talk) 23:45, 24 April 2015 (UTC)

ArbCom elections are now open!
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ArbCom elections are now open!
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