User talk:DHMA

May 2009
Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, your addition of one or more external links to the page Down Home Music Archives (DHMA) has been reverted. Your edit here was reverted by an automated bot that attempts to remove unwanted links and spam from Wikipedia. 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): geocities\.com (links: http://www.geocities.com/downhomemusicarchives/index.html (redirect from http://dhma.us)). If you were trying to insert an external link that does comply with our policies and guidelines, then please accept my creator's apologies and feel free to undo the bot's revert. However, if the link does not comply with our policies and guidelines, but your edit included other changes to the article, feel free to make those changes again without re-adding the link. 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) 16:56, 5 May 2009 (UTC)

February 2012
Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute to the encyclopedia, one or more of the external links you added to the page Dion Payton 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 as a platform for advertising or promotion, and doing so is contrary to the goals of this project. Because 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 constructively to this encyclopedia. Your edit here to Dion Payton was reverted by an automated bot that attempts to remove links which are discouraged per our external links guideline. The external link(s) you added or changed (http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-S_6AJUgFPc) is/are on my list of links to remove and probably shouldn't be included in Wikipedia. If the external link you inserted or changed was to a media file (e.g. a sound or video file) on an external server, then note that linking to such files may be subject to Wikipedia's copyright policy, as well as other parts of our external links guideline. If the information you linked to is indeed in violation of copyright, then such information should not be linked to. Please consider using our upload facility to upload a suitable media file, or consider linking to the original. If you were trying to insert an external link that does comply with our policies and guidelines, then please accept my creator's apologies and feel free to undo the bot's revert. However, if the link does not comply with our policies and guidelines, but your edit included other, constructive, changes to the article, feel free to make those changes again without re-adding the link. 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) 03:12, 17 February 2012 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Down Home Music Archives (DHMA)


A tag has been placed on Down Home Music Archives (DHMA) requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about a person, organization (band, club, company, etc.) or web content, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is important or significant: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such articles may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable.

If you think that the page was nominated in error, contest the nomination by clicking on the button labelled "Click here to contest this speedy deletion" in the speedy deletion tag. Doing so will take you to the talk page where you can explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. You can also visit the page's talk page directly to give your reasons, but be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be removed without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but do not hesitate to add information that is consistent with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, you can contact one of these administrators to request that the administrator userfy the page or email a copy to you. Miracle Pen (talk) 00:02, 10 April 2012 (UTC)

This account has been blocked indefinitely from editing Wikipedia because your username, DHMA, does not meet our username policy. '''Your username is the only reason for this block. You are welcome to choose a new username (see below).''' A username should not be promotional, related to a "real-world" group or organization, misleading, offensive, or disruptive. Also, usernames may not end in the word "bot" unless the account is an approved bot account. You are encouraged to choose a new account name that meets our policy guidelines. Alternatively, if you have already made edits and you wish to keep your existing contributions under a new name, then you may request a change in username by:
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If you feel that you were blocked in error, you may appeal this block by adding below this notice the text, but you should read our guide to appealing blocks first.

However since your only purpose here is to promote the DHMA, I recommend you not to bother with a new account. &mdash; RHaworth (talk · contribs) 23:25, 30 June 2012 (UTC)

Civility issue and blocking action
What happened to "Please don't bite the newcomers"?

"The Down Home Music Archives (DHMA)" page, which existed for several years as a stub (?), was recently deleted, so I spent quite a bit of time today figuring out how to respond/appeal, and (correctly, I hope) posted my content on the deleting editor's talk page.

I included expanded information on the talk page regarding the DHMA project that was not provided on "The Down Home Music Archives (DHMA)" page because I did not wish to cross the line into self-promotion (am still confused about rules of factual info being provided by an interested party). This information was not well received by the editor - an uncivil and dismissive comment was made in response.

Several hours later, this account was blocked (am still unclear on the ramifications).

I am requesting additional sets of knowledgeable eyes to examine my deleted page, my usertalk post and the editor's response and please advise what should be the next step for me?

My interactions with Wikipedia are infrequent and I am probably destined to remain the "eternal newbie" so please assume total ignorance on my part.

Pointless conflict with others does not serve Wikipedia nor the DHMA project. My hope is to engage with an advisor intending to facilitate rather than disable my sincere attempt to provide useful information to the Wikipedia community.

Thank you in advance.

DHMA (talk) 06:31, 1 July 2012 (UTC)


 * 1) The article gave no indication of significance or importance of its subject, so deletion was perfectly correct by Wikipedia standards.
 * 2) You said "My general position is that any entity performing a music research project deserves its own page in Wikipedia. Such projects are typically small and/or regional - by listing them Wikipedia will contribute to these entities' ultimate survival (documenting the documenters' existence). Interested parties need to be able to find us." Unfortunately, that is not consistent with Wikipedia's policies, for at least two reasons. Firstly, Wikipedia requires evidence of notability of a subject, and the idea that "any entity performing a music research project", no matter how notable or un-notable the "entity" may be, does not fit in with that principal. Secondly, using Wikipedia to "contribute to these entities' ultimate survival" is to use Wikipedia for promotion, which again is contrary to policy.
 * 3) Your account clearly represents an organisation, and although the amount of editing you have done over the years has been very small, it is clear that you have edited with the intention of promoting that organisation. That being so, your block was completely justified by our blocking policy. Indeed, you might well have been given a "spamusername" block, which would have meant that any IP address you have used would be blocked from creating a new account, whereas you were in fact given a more limited block.
 * 4) Coming to the issue of civility and "biting", I'm afraid I have to agree with you. The blocking administrator was not very helpful, and I will post a message to him about it. JamesBWatson (talk) 10:23, 1 July 2012 (UTC)
 * I was going to say much the same as James; the only things I have to add are that over time, as knowledge of Wikipedia has spread and the number of people hoping to use it to promote themselves or their organizations has increased, the community's resistance to that has also increased, so that the WP:Notability and WP:Conflict of interest rules are more firmly enforced, see also Wikipedia is not here to tell the world about your noble cause. You may find User:JohnCD/Not a noticeboard helpful for background. JohnCD (talk) 10:39, 1 July 2012 (UTC)