User talk:Flxrocks

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November 2011
Hello! I'm a bot created by another Wikipedia editor. I wanted to let you know that I removed a link that you recently added to the page The Escape Mode here. I did this because http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDMjiJYtTbc is probably inappropriate for an encyclopedia. We generally try to avoid linking to external audio or video. We appreciate your help in making Wikipedia better for everyone. If I made a mistake, feel free to undo my edit. If you have any questions, you can ask at the Help desk. Thank you! --XLinkBot (talk) 15:50, 22 November 2011 (UTC)

The Escape Mode
Wikipedia is not a place where bands are entitled to post their own marketing profiles for promotional purposes. The basic requirement that a band must meet to have a Wikipedia article is that they have received verifiable coverage in reliable sources which demonstrates that they meet one or more of the notability criteria listed at WP:NMUSIC, and the article must be written in a neutral point-of-view rather than as an electronic press kit.

If proper sources can be added in a more objective and less advertorial fashion, then a new article may be recreated — but in the form that it existed, the article does not meet our standards and is not entitled to be kept. And I'd also strongly recommend that you familiarize yourself with our conflict of interest policy; if you're in the band, then you should not be the primary author of a Wikipedia article about it. We're an encyclopedia, not Bandcamp; we exist to provide neutral coverage of topics that have already attained encyclopedic notability, not to provide a platform for emerging bands to promote themselves toward future notability. Bearcat (talk) 19:19, 19 January 2012 (UTC)


 * Again, you can rant and rave all you want, but Wikipedia has rules about what kind of content does or doesn't belong on here, and administrators whose job it is to enforce them. If you want the band to have a page "so that people who are looking for information about them can find out", then write an article that fits our rules — again, verifiable coverage in reliable sources which demonstrates that they meet one or more of the notability criteria listed at WP:NMUSIC. If it doesn't fit our rules, it doesn't get to stay whether you want it to or not, because our baseline inclusion rule is "verifiable coverage in reliable sources which demonstrates that they meet one or more of the notability criteria listed at WP:NMUSIC", not "the band wants to have a Wikipedia article". Bearcat (talk) 17:18, 23 January 2012 (UTC)

January 2012
Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, we would like to remind you not to attack other editors, as you did on User talk:Bearcat. Please comment on the content and not the contributors. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. You are welcome to rephrase your comment as a civil criticism of the article. Thank you. Vrenator    talk   12:49, 23 January 2012 (UTC)