User talk:David kowal

April 2015
Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, your addition of one or more external links to the page King giant has been reverted. Your edit here to King giant 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://www.facebook.com/kinggiantband) is/are on my list of links to remove and probably shouldn't be included in Wikipedia. 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) 05:59, 5 April 2015 (UTC)

Deletion
Hi, thanks for message. I deleted your article because
 * it did not provide independent verifiable sources to enable us to verify the facts and show that it meets the notability guidelines. You had only one reference, and all the following text appeared to be unsourced. I see no evidence of how this band meets the notability criteria; the text is just anecdotes and promotion. there are no sales figures, chart placings or awards, and none of the performers or recordings seem to be linked to existing articles. from what we are told it's simply one of the hundreds of non-notable groups that don't meet our criteria
 * it was written in a promotional tone. Articles must be neutral and encyclopaedic. Examples of unsourced claims presented as fact include: which won over fans of heavy music everywhere with its vibrant approach to the genre... launched the band into a more accessible, but more sinister territory, reaping critical acclaim from internationally-based mags and webzines... as they prepare to unleash the wayward grooves. Forty-five minutes of bold, ominous, organic, and accessible material pours fourth [sic] ... new opus surging with eight ebbing torrents of regret, shame, revenge, and reconciliation.

Not a reason for deletion, but you should link to other articles eg heavy metal music, Virginia. Don't add links to social media or YouTube, they will be removed (a bot had already removed one Facebook link). Just one link to your official site in External links please.

You have an obvious conflict of interest when it comes to editing articles about this subject. If, after reading the information about notability linked above, you still believe that your group is notable enough for a Wikipedia article (and that there is significant coverage in reliable, independent secondary sources), you could, if you wish, post a request at Requested articles for the article to be created. See also Best practices for editors with conflicts of interest.