User talk:Ss2

If you promise not to move any more pages or repost the article on The Government from CT, I'll unblock you. If you want to pursue the issue on The Government, you can go to Deletion review. NawlinWiki 16:03, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

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My offer to unblock, as above, stands. Or are you saying that if unblocked, you will continue to move pages and repost the Government (CT) article? NawlinWiki 16:50, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

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Speedy deletion of pages is not considered a content dispute. You were asked, repeatedly, not to post material unless you provided evidence from reliable sources. You then disrupted Wikipedia by making illegitimate page moves. (I do see how you misunderstood the instructions; in order to promote the band, you were moving material inappropriately and were given instructions on how to make page moves, even though the page move would not have been the proper course of action.) However, NawlinWiki warned you about page moving, and you continued to do it after the warning (as seen here). Page moving in this manner is considered vandalism, which explains your block summary. You then used an alternate account as a means of block evasion rather than using the means available to you (i.e., editing the talk page of the blocked user to request an unblock). NawlinWiki is a trusted and respected administrator of our community, with a lot of experience in speedy deletions: he or she is not uninformed of our policies. I will investigate the blocking issue; it appears that an autoblock was issued on the IP address used by StripSlashes. This is a very common issue with our software and can be easily remedied.

Again, the article about the band was deleted because it did not assert notability, which is a clear example of a candidate for speedy deletion under WP:CSD. It also happens to fail the notability criteria laid out in WP:MUSIC, which means that it will likely fail a deletion review as well. A personal webpage, a video on Google, and a MySpace page do not establish anything other than the band exists, which no one is disputing. I have a website and a MySpace, have appeared on a DVD release, and could quickly burn a CD of me playing guitar and "release" it as an album. It doesn't make me notable. I'm also quite popular in my hometown; again, it doesn't mean that I should have an encyclopedia entry.

I understand your frustration with the system, but our rules are in place to ensure that Wikipedia's articles are of a consistent standard. However, despite your quoting policy at me (which, believe it or not, I have read and do understand), you are not going about this in the proper manner; nor are you showing that you understand the policies you're quoting.

If you still want to lodge a complaint, you may do so at WP:ANI. Be warned, however, that an admitted sockpuppet of a blocked user (wrongly or no) isn't going to receive the attention that a person who followed the proper unblocking request procedures would. -- Merope 16:51, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

Unblocking
Thanks for your response. I will unblock User:Stripslashes per your promise. NawlinWiki 16:57, 15 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Where is this response, and what was the promise? —Psychonaut 23:39, 15 March 2007 (UTC)