User talk:Time2rise

A tag has been placed on The Morning Becomes Electric, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article seems to be blatant advertising which only promotes a company, product, group or service and which would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become an encyclopedia article. Please read the general criteria for speedy deletion, particularly item 11, as well as the guidelines on spam.

If you can indicate why the subject of this article is not blatant advertising, you may contest the tagging. To do this, please add  on the top of the page and leave a note on the article's talk page explaining your position. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would help make it encyclopedic, as well as adding any citations from reliable sources to ensure that the article will be verifiable. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. Realkyhick 20:50, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

Regarding edits made to The Morning Becomes Electric
Thank you for contributing to Wikipedia, Time2rise! However, your edit here was reverted by an automated bot that attempts to remove spam from Wikipedia. If you were trying to insert a good link, please accept my creator's apologies, but note that the link you added, matching rule \bpurevolume\.com\/, is on my list of links to remove and probably shouldn't be included in Wikipedia. Please read Wikipedia's external links policy for more information. If the link was to an image, please read Wikipedia's image tutorial on how to use a more appropriate method to insert the image into an article. If your link was intended to promote a site you own, are affiliated with, or will make money from inclusion in Wikipedia, please note that inserting spam into Wikipedia is against policy. For more information about me, see my FAQ page. Thanks! Shadowbot 22:20, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

Your remarks about speedy deletion
Regarding your remark on my user talk page: Actually, I didn't delete the page. I can't because I'm not a Wikipedia admin (and don't really want to be), and only they can actually delete articles. But by the time I posted the notice about the speedy deletion tag — which is just a marker that tell other human editors, "Hey! This probably should be deleted according to Wikipedia policies" — a "bot," which is basically a program, came along and dumped the article on its own, without intervention. Frankly, that was the first time I even knew that "bots" even existed for deleting articles that contained certain patterns — Wikipedia is huge, and there's a lot I don't know about it, even after nearly two years on board. My point is, the "bot" would have deleted your article about "The Morning Becomes Electric" no matter what I did.

Here's the deal. On a daily basis, dozens of bands and musicians have new articles written about them. A lot of these bands are purely local in nature, and since Wikipedia is a global online encyclopedia, The Powers That Be are trying to cut down on the sheer volume of these articles. They have established guidelines regarding which musicians/bands are notable enough to merit an article, listed at WP:BAND. In a nutshell, these guidelines say that a band should record for a major record label or an established indie, and should have had some articles written about them by reputable, independent sources such as newspapers, magazines, major web sites and the like — press releases and stuff from your own or your label's web site doesn't count. It helps if you've charted, or appeared on a widely-distributed radio or TV show. In other words, most brand-new bands and even longer-lived local bands won't make it.

Apparently, the "bot" looks for specific website links as an indicator that a band isn't notable. It seems that www.purevolume.com is one of them, and the bot programmer assumes that any band which pays purevolume.com to promote itself is not notable enough for a Wikipedia article. That's just my guess, based on the message above. If you have other sources showing that the band might meet the WP:BAND criteria, you can post a revised article and see if it passes. If someone puts a speedy-delete tag on it again, put a tag on there yourself, and put the reasons why it shouldn't be deleted on the discussion page. Just remember, it still may be deleted, but that's just the way it goes. At least you can plead your case.

Remember that Wikipedia is not a place to promote a band or anything else. It is an encyclopedia where people go to find facts about a particular topic. And don't take it personally. I had this same thing happen to me when I first came to Wikipedia. Realkyhick 05:17, 3 March 2007 (UTC)