User talk:DualShowman

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Your submission at Articles for creation
 Thank you for your recent submission to Articles for Creation. Your article submission has been reviewed. Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. Please view your submission to see the comments left by the reviewer. You are welcome to edit the submission to address the issues raised, and resubmit once you feel they have been resolved.


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 * Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia! Lawsonmediaworks (talk) 23:37, 10 January 2013 (UTC)

I'm confused. I've written this from a neutral, verifiable, third-party perspective. I've included notability links to Wall Street Journal, the New York TImes, CNN Technology News, Stereophile, etc. I was very careful to make sure that the story was NOT written as an ad for this website, and followed closely the examples from iTunes, eMusic and other digital music stores that have approved articles on Wikipedia. HDtracks.com deserves to have an entry because they were the first ones in the industry to offer high-resolution music from all the major labels, the first to offer these files without any digital rights management, years before iTunes did with Apple, and have effectively pioneered this industry. Can I please get some specific examples of what it is you think makes this read like an advertisement vs the neutral, factual, third-party article that I wrote it to be? I'm not an HDtracks employee, I'm not writing and ad for them. Their parent company, Chesky Records, has a Wikipedia entry, which is referenced, too. I would appreicate some actual examples of what it is I need to change to get this approved rather than having to guess at it, as I have done my best to write it so it did NOT appear as an ad and was filled with factual, notable references to the company's important work for audiophile customers like myself.

Your submission at Articles for creation
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Your submission at Articles for creation
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 * Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia! Lawsonmediaworks (talk) 01:09, 11 January 2013 (UTC)

Would you please tell me how my HDtracks entry is reading like an advertisement, while eMusic, iTunes and other similar Wikipedia pages that are approved, which this was originally modeled after, do not read as advertisements? I tried diligently to use them as templates for content, and I've provided lots of notability references from respects newspapers, books, trade publications, websites, etc. I'd really like to get this write, but the unfortunate lack of detail in the process of turning down the article is not helping. I am reading the requirements, and am following the guidelines. What specifically reads like an ad?
 * Language like "HDtracks solved problems often complained about by consumers of downloadable music"; and all the worshipful stuff about the glories of the Chesky Brothers; those are the things that first strike me. -- Orange Mike &#x007C;  Talk  21:19, 11 January 2013 (UTC)

Blocked anyway
Your account has been blocked indefinitely from editing Wikipedia because it appears to be mainly intended for publicity and/or promotional purposes. Please read the following carefully.

Your account's edits and/or username indicate that it is being used on behalf of a company, group, website or organization for purposes of promotion and/or publicity. The edits may have violated one or more of our rules on spamming, which include: adding inappropriate external links, posting advertisements, and using Wikipedia for promotion. Wikipedia has many articles on companies, groups, and organizations, but such groups are generally discouraged from using Wikipedia to write about themselves. In addition, usernames like yours are disallowed under our username policy.
 * Why can't I edit Wikipedia?

Probably not. See Wikipedia's FAQ for Organizations for a helpful list of frequently asked questions by people in your position. Also, review the conflict of interest guidance to see the kinds of limitations you would have to obey if you did want to continue editing about your company, group, organization, or clients. If this does not fit in with your goals, then you will not be allowed to edit again.
 * Am I allowed to make these edits if I change my username?


 * What can I do now?

If you have no interest in writing about some other topic than your organization, group, company, or product, you will probably not be allowed to edit Wikipedia again. Consider using one of the many websites that allow this instead. If you do intend to make useful contributions about some other topic, you must convince a Wikipedia administrator that you mean it. To that end, please do the following:


 * Add the text on your user talk page.
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 * Convince us that you understand the reason for your block and that you will not repeat the edits for which you were blocked.
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If you believe this block was made in error, you may appeal this block by adding the text below, but you should read the guide to appealing blocks first. -- Orange Mike &#x007C;  Talk  21:16, 11 January 2013 (UTC)


 * I have to say, I've just read the AfC version of the article, and it really does look very promotional to me - it's puffing up everything that's good about HDtracks, and almost every sentence is essentially trying to tell us how much better HDtracks is than all the others. If you really can't see how promotional that writing comes across (even if it is not meant to be advertising), then I really don't think you have the necessary judgment to be writing this article. (And yes, I have read the iTunes article too) -- Boing! said Zebedee (talk) 01:21, 14 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Oh, and your username is a problem too. You cannot have a username that sounds like it's representing a company or organization - Wikipedia usernames are specifically for individuals only. -- Boing! said Zebedee (talk) 01:22, 14 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Also, I'm not an admin at the moment (I'm on a break from admin duties), and I will not be the one formally reviewing your unblock request. So if you have any points to make or questions to ask, you should do so here rather than emailing me, so the reviewing admin can see them. But you did ask me how to change your username - the details of how to use unblock-spamun are contained in the block notice, above. -- Boing! said Zebedee (talk) 01:29, 14 January 2013 (UTC)


 * Hi, You only need one unblock request at a time, so I've merged the two requests into one, above - hope that's OK with you. -- Boing! said Zebedee (talk) 04:05, 14 January 2013 (UTC)
 * One more comment from me, for the reviewing admin - were I in a position to review, I would be minded to recommend an unblock (after a discussion with the blocking admin first). Lawsonmediaworks/DualShowman comes across as genuine to me - I think this is someone who really just hasn't understood the way articles are written here, and I honestly don't think there's been an attempt at commercial promotion. -- Boing! said Zebedee (talk) 04:38, 14 January 2013 (UTC)

Congratulations on the re-name
Hope to see you working here in the future. -- Orange Mike &#x007C;  Talk  16:40, 17 January 2013 (UTC)

Thank you. Please be patient with me as I learn the ropes. There is a lot I can contribute as time goes on. Learning the coding, the process, the acceptable use, etc presents a great learning curve. Not to be critical of Wikipedia, but its a little difficult to write an entry and use what looks like an acceptable description of something judging from other approved page content, only to find out its not later. A good example is Apple's iTunes Store entry. Its got a lot of links to iTunes press releases directly on Apple's site. Even as a newbie here I know better than to link to the press releases of the subject's website.

So far the experience has been a lot like dealing with Apple's iBookstore as a publisher. They never tell you specifically what's wrong with an eBook upload, they give you this wide range of things to look at instead, which is kind of maddening. I am most happy that its been established that I didn't setup this account to spam or violate Wikipedia's rules. I am hoping now that Kevin Rutherford will help me with the next entry edit as he said he'd try to do in an email, so we can get this first entry finally published and I'll have a better handle on what's acceptable by the sysops. Sysop, man that's a term I haven't used since I was a Sysop on Compu$erve back 20 years ago! DualShowman &#x007C;  Talk

Your submission at Articles for creation
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 * Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia!  78.26   (I'm no IP, talk to me!) 02:56, 25 January 2013 (UTC)

Just a heads up
Hey Mike, your e-mail has been hacked and is sending out spam. Kevin Rutherford (talk) 07:14, 7 February 2013 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation
 HDtracks.com, which you submitted to Articles for creation, has been created. The article has been assessed as Stub-Class, which is recorded on the article's talk page. You may like to take a look at the grading scheme to see how you can improve the article. You are more than welcome to continue making quality contributions to Wikipedia. Note that because you are a logged-in user, you can create articles yourself, and don't have to post a request. However, you may continue submitting work to Articles for Creation if you prefer. Thank you for helping improve Wikipedia! Kevin Rutherford (talk) 02:10, 9 February 2013 (UTC)
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Essra Mohawk
Adding details of someone's death need to be cited from a good source. You can understand how upsetting it might be for people to be incorrectly listed as dead, either by mistake or maliciously. Do you have a source? Escape Orbit (Talk) 19:05, 11 December 2023 (UTC)

We know that posts like this strongly suggest that she has, in fact, died. However, there have been plenty of false claims that people have died in the past, and Wikipedia requires any similar claims to be first published in reliable sources - not Facebook posts. All will become clear in a day or so, I'm sure. Ghmyrtle (talk) 21:10, 11 December 2023 (UTC)