User talk:Daryl182

Welcome
Welcome to Wikipedia. To find out more about how to make useful contributions, take a look at the welcome page. To stay in Wikipedia, an article has to be about something notable, that is, of general interest. See WP:N for an explanation of what that means. Also, it must give independently verifiable sources. Follow the links below to learn more:
 * 1) To find out more about creating articles, read the introduction, tutorial, and guide to creating your first article.
 * 2) Do not write articles about yourself, your company, your band, or your best friend - that's a conflict of interest.
 * 3) Wikipedia is not an advertising service.
 * 4) For experiments, please use the sandbox. JohnCD 22:01, 14 November 2007 (UTC)

A tag has been placed on 75 stories 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 by adding  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. JohnCD 22:01, 14 November 2007 (UTC)

Don't remove speedy-deletion tags
You are entitled to challenge the speedy deletion by putting on the page immediately under the  tag, as you have done. Now put your reasons on the article's talk page, and the administrators will read what you say before they decide. But you must not remove the speedy deletion tag. JohnCD 22:01, 14 November 2007 (UTC)

Notability and Verifiabilty
What you have to do is explain why your band meets the notability criteria in WP:MUSIC. Just existing is not enough. And you need to provide independently verifiable sources of information to back up your claims. An article written by the band's own members suffers from conflict of interest. JohnCD 22:10, 14 November 2007 (UTC)

Why I deleted 75 stories
Although you said you were going to add more to the article, there was nothing in the article that suggested notability by Wikipedia's WP:MUSIC or WP:BAND criteria. A Google search on the band name and the guitarist turned up only a MySpace page. I considered it very unlikely you would be able to supply reliable sources for the content of the article, making it original research. And your Wikipedia username suggests you might be a member of the band which also puts your contribution into conflict of interest territory. If you want to contribute to Wikipedia, I strongly suggest you look at the wikilinks I've included here as well as the ones in the welcome message at the top of this talk page. If you have any questions, I'd be happy to answer them on my talk page. Pigman what? / trail 23:14, 14 November 2007 (UTC)