User talk:Scubastephen

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Speedy deletion nomination of The Austin Bingham Band
A tag has been placed on The Austin Bingham Band, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a very short article providing no content to the reader. Please note that external links, "See also" section, book reference, category tag, template tag, interwiki link, rephrasing of the title, or an attempt to contact the subject of the article don't count as content. Moreover, please add more verifiable sources, not only 3rd party sources. Please see Wikipedia:Stub for our minimum information standards for short articles. Also please note that articles must be on notable subjects and should provide references to reliable sources that verify their content. You may wish to consider using a Wizard to help you create articles - see the Article Wizard.

Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself. If you plan to expand the article, you can request that administrators wait a while for you to add contextual material. To do this, affix the template   to the page and state your intention on the article's talk page. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. —C.Fred (talk) 19:17, 10 February 2011 (UTC)

Welcome to Wikipedia. If you are affiliated with some of the people, places or things you have written about in the article The Austin Bingham Band, you may have a conflict of interest. In keeping with Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy, edits where there is a conflict of interest, or where such a conflict might reasonably be inferred, are strongly discouraged. If you have a conflict of interest, you should avoid or exercise great caution when:
 * 1) editing or creating articles related to you, your organization, or its competitors, as well as projects and products they are involved with;
 * 2) participating in deletion discussions about articles related to your organization or its competitors; and
 * 3) linking to the Wikipedia article or website of your organization in other articles (see Spam).

Please familiarize yourself with relevant policies and guidelines, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, verifiability of information, and autobiographies.

For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have a conflict of interest, please see our frequently asked questions for organizations. Thank you.

If you think the band meets the notability criteria for bands, and if you can find multiple independent reliable sources that have covered the band (such as newspaper and magazine stories), you may attempt to create an article on it. You must adhere to neutral point of view, of course.

I strongly suggest that you draft the article in your user space—for example, at User:Scubastephen/The Austin Bingham Band. If your draft shows that the band is notable, then I or another user will assist you in moving the draft into the main encyclopedia. —C.Fred (talk) 19:32, 10 February 2011 (UTC)

Your band
Hello. I saw your comment on Talk:The Austin Bingham Band:

"'I am creating this page strictly to get the story of our band out to the public and not for advertising. I will be working on it over the next week or so in order to get it to the place where we want it to be.'"

Unforatunely, Wikipedia has a policy about the inclusion of bands called WP:BAND. If your band doesnt meet this policy or the general notability guidelines than there may not be an article about it. We require reliable sources that verify the notability of the band. Wikipedia is not a soapbox to get the word out about your band not is it an indiscriminate source of information. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia. Your article has been deleted per our criteria for speedy deletion. If you feel your band is notable, I suggest trying to articles for creation process or creating a subpage in your userspace. Keep in mind that your article will be seen as having a conflict of interest and there will be questions on its neutrality. Hope this helps you get started.--v/r - TP 19:33, 10 February 2011 (UTC)