User talk:Dennis.watson

October 2008
Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, your addition of one or more external links to the page Maddog blues band 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): rule: '\bmyspace\.com' (link(s): http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=225089328&MyToken=dec4be92-dbdd-4ed8-b203-ca2996b334b4). If the external link you inserted or changed was to a blog, forum, free web hosting service, or similar site, then please check the information on the external site thoroughly. Note that such sites should probably not be linked to if they contain information that is in violation of the creator's copyright (see Linking to copyrighted works), or they are not written by a recognised, reliable source. Linking to sites that you are involved with is also strongly discouraged (see conflict of interest).

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. 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) 08:04, 1 October 2008 (UTC)

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, one or more of the external links you added 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 for advertising or promotion. Since 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 before reinserting it. Please take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia.

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): rule: '\bmyspace\.com' (link(s): http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=225089328&MyToken=dec4be92-dbdd-4ed8-b203-ca2996b334b4). If the external link you inserted or changed was to a blog, forum, free web hosting service, or similar site, then please check the information on the external site thoroughly. Note that such sites should probably not be linked to if they contain information that is in violation of the creator's copyright (see Linking to copyrighted works), or they are not written by a recognised, reliable source. Linking to sites that you are involved with is also strongly discouraged (see conflict of interest).

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. 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) 08:14, 1 October 2008 (UTC)

Speedy deletion of Maddog blues band
A tag has been placed on Maddog blues band, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G4 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be a repost of material that was previously deleted following a deletion debate, such as at articles for deletion. Under the specified criteria, where an article has substantially identical content to that of an article deleted after debate, and any changes in the content do not address the reasons for which the material was previously deleted, it may be deleted at any time.

If you think that this notice was placed here in error, you may contest the deletion by adding  to the top of the page that has been nominated for deletion (just below the existing speedy deletion or "db" tag), coupled with adding a note on the 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 would render it more in conformance with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Lastly, please note that if the article does get deleted, you can contact one of these admins to request that a copy be emailed to you. TallNapoleon (talk) 11:45, 2 October 2008 (UTC)

Information about deletion
You wrote on the talk page of Maddog blues band (again deleted) "Im confused by the rules and regulations of Wikipedia. Why is this site up for deletion, It isnt promoting anything, just informing people about a Young, up and coming band (of which im not even a member) Please Do Not Delete this site, or alternatively, explain to me what procedures i must do in order to stop this from being deleted." Wikipedia is an encyclopedia. It is not a social networking site, advertizing service, blog, or myspace equivalent. You should expect that an encyclopedia will only contain entries on notable, verifiable things. Would you expect that a paper encyclopedia would have an entry on a band that isn't famous but is "up and coming"? Of course not. While we can and do contain entries on subjects that a paper encyclopedia could not handle simply because they are more contrained by being on paper, this is an encyclopedia and, as such, it has certain requirements for entries. Some of those are that the subjects of article must be notable. Notability here generally is defined as being the subject of significant treatment in reliable secondary sources that are independent of the subject. There is a secondary notability guideline specifically for bands which defines other bases to look for such as whether the band "Has had a charted hit on any national music chart." A local band that has played weddings and parties meets none of the notability requirements for an encyclopedia entry. There are other issues involved but this is the gist of it. Please also see Why was my page deleted?. By the way, please ignore the template warning you received above this. The article was not deleted on the basis of being a "repost", nor would that speedy deletion criterion apply.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 12:25, 2 October 2008 (UTC)