User talk:Jimmy Spoonbender

Your submission at Articles for creation: sandbox (June 28)
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DoubleGrazing (talk) 18:33, 28 June 2024 (UTC)


 * Disappointed, yes. Even though it's autobiographical, my vast music production experience is notable and enjoyed by listeners all over the world on Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, Deezer, Pandora, Napster, YouTube Music, X-Twitter Streaming. More than 40,000 listeners have paid for streaming my songs. The tone is encyclopedic. There are no spelling errors. There is no other existing page on Jimmy Spoonbender. Please publish my page. You're making this way too hard. Have a heart please. Jimmy Spoonbender (talk) 14:41, 29 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Let me explain.
 * I declined your draft because it is unreferenced. Moreover, it is not supported by inline citations, which are a hard requirement in articles on living people (WP:BLP).
 * I could have also declined it for complete lack of evidence that you are notable in Wikipedia terms. Notability isn't about how many people have paid for your music, or on how many platforms it is available, or any other metric like that. It is about whether independent secondary sources have published things about you.
 * Additionally, I could have declined this for being promotional. It seems you've written what you wanted to tell the world about yourself, and then linked to some of your playlists on YouTube. This is the very definition of promotion (see WP:YESPROMO), which is not allowed on Wikipedia. And self-promotion is particularly frowned upon, as explained in WP:AUTOBIO.
 * Now, here's what you should have done:
 * Find a few (3-5) secondary sources (newspapers, magazines, books, TV and radio programmes, etc.) which have provided significant coverage, directly of you (not about your music, or bands you've played in, or any other indirectly related matters), and which are reliable and entirely independent of you and of each other.
 * Summarise what they have said, in your own words but without putting any 'spin' or embellishment on things.
 * Cited the sources inline, against the information each of them have provided.
 * Left out all those external links to YouTube and Spotify, as they are not allowed in any case, and only serve to make the draft that much more promotional.
 * This would give you the appropriate content, required referencing, and proof of notability all in one go. Even then it shouldn't be you writing this, it should be someone entirely unconnected to you, but either way that's the correct process to follow.
 * Best, -- DoubleGrazing (talk) 15:02, 29 June 2024 (UTC)
 * I've survived quite well without a Wikipedia page, and will continue to do so. No more yearly contributions to Wikipedia from me.
 * Sorry to have wasted your time. Really sorry to have wasted MY time. Keep up the good work. We need only quality pages on Wikipedia. Cheerio! Jimmy Spoonbender (talk) 13:54, 30 June 2024 (UTC)
 * One last request. I tried to delete this Wikipedia account but discovered that's apparently impossible for users.
 * Would you please delete my draft page and my Wikipedia account? I would appreciate that. Thanks again! Jimmy Spoonbender (talk) 14:21, 30 June 2024 (UTC)

June 2024
Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. We appreciate your contributions; however, it appears you may have written a Wikipedia article, or a draft for a Wikipedia article, about yourself. Creating an autobiography is strongly discouraged – please see our guideline on writing autobiographies. If you create such an article, it may be deleted. If what you have done in life is genuinely notable and can be verified according to our policy for articles about living people, someone else will probably create an article about you sooner or later (see Notable people who have edited Wikipedia). If you wish to add to or change an existing article about yourself, you are welcome to propose the changes by visiting the article's talk page. Please understand that this is an encyclopedia and not a personal web space or social networking site. If your article has already been deleted, please see: Why was the page I created deleted?, and if you feel the deletion was an error, please discuss this with the deleting administrator. Thank you. DoubleGrazing (talk) 18:33, 28 June 2024 (UTC)