User talk:Michael Viena

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Speedy deletion nomination of Univision prepaid card
A tag has been placed on Univision prepaid card, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page seems to be unambiguous advertising which only promotes a company, product, group, service or person and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become an encyclopedia article. Please read the guidelines on spam as well as FAQ/Business for more information. You may also wish to consider using a Wizard to help you create articles - see the Article Wizard.

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TobyMac
I see you're trying to get it semi-protected. That's not the way to do it. I will make the request for you, but you need to convince me that it needs protection since you'll also have to convince the admins to do it. --Walter Görlitz (talk) 18:26, 6 August 2010 (UTC)


 * Walter and Wiki team,
 * just i want to say sorry, first for the Univision Card I tried to set well I did not know that it was was going to be like publicity and the article of tobyMac I think that he is an artist that deserves to have protected his article since he is too famous and has a long time to be singing, but it is my opinion, but if you consider that does not need to be protected no problem.


 * Thank u all
 * MV —Preceding unsigned comment added by Michael Viena (talk • contribs) 19:01, 6 August 2010 (UTC)


 * Not so much that it doesn't need to be protected, but you have to understand why the admins protect articles and what protection is. I'll start with the latter. There are two types of protection: full protection and semi-protection. Full protection means only admins may edit an article. Semi-protection is when an article is protected from anonymous editing. Then there's the concept of how long the article is protected. Some articles require protection permanently (such as a prominent political figure or similar topic) while other need only temporary protection (such as the 2010 World Cup articles) due to the tendency for these high-profile articles to suffer from vandalism for a short period of time. Most admins will protect an article only after it has suffered persistent, long-term vandalism or edit wars. It's not the prominence of the subject that determines if the article should be protected but the effects of not protecting the article. The tobyMac article (and many others on my watch list) are vandalized occasionally. If one editor consistently does the vandalism, it's easier to block that editor rather than protect the article. That's even done for anonymous editors who can easily move IP addresses. In short, editors such as you and me would have to show that the article is under regular attack before it can be protected. The role of protecting can only be implemented by an admin.
 * If you want to help watch for bad edits, you can do a few things.
 * Add the article to your watch list and check your watch list when you arrive at Wikipedia. My watchlist is my Wikipedia landing page. if I'm looking for a subject, I generally use the search feature in my browser.
 * Create an RSS feed from the article's history and use an RSS reader to notify you of changes as they happen. I have done that for a few articles when required.
 * I'm really pleased that you're helping with articles, and your heart is in the right place, it's just your head hasn't caught up yet. Let me know if you need any help. --Walter Görlitz (talk) 19:40, 6 August 2010 (UTC)