User talk:Sherif Mansour

Regarding your edits to The skyrockets:
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The SkyRockets
Please provide some sources for this article, which currently reads suspiciously like it was lifted from a newspaper or magazine article, or perhaps from publicity materials. -- Orange Mike 14:50, 17 July 2007 (UTC)

The SkyRockets
A proposed deletion template has been added to the article The SkyRockets, suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process. All contributions are appreciated, but this article may not satisfy Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and the deletion notice should explain why (see also "What Wikipedia is not" and Wikipedia's deletion policy). You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the  notice, but please explain why you disagree with the proposed deletion in your edit summary or on its talk page. Also, please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Even though removing the deletion notice will prevent deletion through the proposed deletion process, the article may still be deleted if it matches any of the speedy deletion criteria or it can be sent to Articles for Deletion, where it may be deleted if consensus to delete is reached. If you agree with the deletion of the article, and you are the only person who has made substantial edits to the page, please add  to the top of The SkyRockets. Orange Mike  &#x007C;   Talk  15:00, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

The deletion of the SkyRockets
You may not understand how badly I hated to delete that article. One of our primary principles here, however, is verifiability. After multiple requests, you did not provide any verifiable references to impartial, third-party sources as to the existence of this band, far less its prominence. Has nobody ever written about them in any books on Egyptian popular culture? Were they never mentioned in articles (favorable or hostile) in the local press (ideally, English-language)? Online images of what appear to be aging contracts and an old placard, especially when provided by the subject of the article, do not constitute verifiable evidence. If you come up with some solid sources, please let me know; I really want to be fair to these guys. -- Orange Mike  &#x007C;   Talk  17:39, 19 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Well, you've got one extremely passing mention in a film review, another passing mention (albeit by a former band member) in a magazine interview; and a blog post. The last is no good; the other two, pretty feeble. -- Orange Mike  &#x007C;   Talk  22:48, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

Your recent edits
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Persistent misunderstanding
Sherif, the problem has never been that people deny the band existed. The problem is that you've never established that the band was in any way notable. Passing appearance in a film is not enough. Read WP:MUSIC for more details. -- Orange Mike  &#x007C;   Talk  22:31, 13 April 2008 (UTC)