User talk:BeyondaDoubt

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I notice you've been adding several obscure Washington, DC bands to disambiguation pages. I'm guessing you're David Goers, the one individual who you've listed as a member of all of them. There are several problems with your edits.


 * Wikipedia is not for promotion and we discourage autobiographical contributions. It's hard to maintain a neutral point of view when you're writing about yourself.


 * In each case, you've linked the band's name right back to the same disambiguation page where you've made the entry rather than to a disambiguated name. For example, in the case of Boa, you can't just link it back to the Boa disambiguation page.  You need to link to a distinct name, e.g., Boa (Washington, DC band), where the parenthesized part distinguishes this Boa from every other on Wikipedia.


 * As discussed at WP:REDNOT, you should not wikilink a person's name unless the article exists and if you do link a name, it has to be to the right one. For example, in the Sinbad entry, you wikilinked Bobby Stevens.  But the Bobby Stevens you linked to is actually an American professional baseball player from the 1930s.  That can't possibly be the Bobby Stevens you meant.


 * As outlined at Disambiguation dos and don'ts, it just doesn't make sense to add entries to a disambiguation page for pages that don't exist. None of these bands have articles.  You should create the articles first, then add links as appropriate to the disambiguation pages.  But be aware, to have an article on Wikipedia, our WP:Notability guidelines require that there be sources to establish the subject is notable, meaning not just that people not connected to the subject should take note, but that they actually have and that they've done it in reliable sources with a reputation for fact-checking.  So far as I can tell, all of your bands are fairly obscure and there are no sources available to establish notability.  So even if you do create articles, they are likely to be deleted fairly quickly.

For these reasons, your changes have been reverted and I wanted you to know why. If you have questions or would like to discuss further, just reply here and I will respond. Msnicki (talk) 17:06, 3 March 2014 (UTC)