User talk:Digital2social

March 2014[edit]

Please do not add or change content, as you did to Felix Riebl, without verifying it by citing a reliable source. Please review the guidelines at Wikipedia:Citing sources and take this opportunity to add references to the article. Thank you.

Please do not remove maintenance templates from pages on Wikipedia, as you did to Felix Riebl, without resolving the problem that the template refers to, or giving a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. Your removal of this template does not appear constructive, and has been reverted. Thank you.

Please do not use styles that are unusual, inappropriate or difficult to understand in articles, as you did in Felix Riebl. There is a Manual of Style, and edits should not deliberately go against it without special reason. Thank you. Dl2000 (talk) 01:54, 1 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Your recent edits[edit]

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Thank you. --SineBot (talk) 06:07, 1 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome[edit]

Hello, Digital2social, and welcome to Wikipedia. Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. If you are stuck, and looking for help, please come to the New contributors' help page, where experienced Wikipedians can answer any queries you have! Or, you can just type {{helpme}} and your question on this page, and someone will show up shortly to answer. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

We hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! By the way, you can sign your name on talk and vote pages using four tildes, like this: ~~~~. If you have any questions, see the help pages, add a question to the village pump or ask me on my talk page. Again, welcome! -- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom 10:12, 1 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Conflict of interest[edit]

Hello, Digital2social. We welcome your contributions to Wikipedia, but if you are affiliated with some of the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, you may have a conflict of interest or close connection to the subject.

All editors are required to comply with Wikipedia's neutral point of view content policy. People who are very close to a subject often have a distorted view of it, which may cause them to inadvertently edit in ways that make the article either too flattering or too disparaging. People with a close connection to a subject are not absolutely prohibited from editing about that subject, but they need to be especially careful about ensuring their edits are verified by reliable sources and writing with as little bias as possible.

If you are very close to a subject, here are some ways you can reduce the risk of problems:

Avoid or exercise great caution when editing or creating articles related to you, your organization, or its competitors, as well as projects and products they are involved with.
Be cautious about deletion discussions. Everyone is welcome to provide information about independent sources in deletion discussions, but avoid advocating for deletion of articles about your competitors.
Avoid linking to the Wikipedia article or website of your organization in other articles (see Wikipedia:Spam).
Exercise great caution so that you do not accidentally breach Wikipedia's content policies.

Please familiarize yourself with relevant content 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. -- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom 10:12, 1 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Your user name[edit]

Welcome to Wikipedia. I noticed that your username, "Digital2social", may not meet Wikipedia's username policy because because it is the name of a group, organization or company about whose clients you have been editing.. If you believe that your username does not violate our policy, please leave a note here explaining why. As an alternative, you may ask for a change of username, or you may simply create a new account for editing. Thank you.

-- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom 10:16, 1 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome to Wikipedia. Because we have a policy against usernames that give the impression that the account represents a group, organization or website, I have blocked this account; please take a moment to create a new account with a username that represents only yourself as an individual and which complies with our username policy. You should also read our conflict of interest guideline and be aware that promotional editing is not acceptable regardless of the username you choose.

If your username does not represent a group, organization or website, you may appeal this username block by adding the text {{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}} below this notice.

You may simply create a new account, but you may prefer to change your username to one that complies with our username policy, so that your past contributions are associated with your new username. If you would prefer to change your username, you may appeal this username block by adding the text {{unblock-un|new username|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}} below this notice. Thank you.

--Orange Mike | Talk 23:35, 2 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

How Wikipedia works[edit]

Nobody "owns" article content. It is all released publicly under the Creative Commons license.

Who is to say it is accurate? - That is why all content must be verified by citations to reliably published third party sources.

Wikipedia is not a free web host and it is not a free advertising platform. No one is entitled to an article; the subject must be shown to meet the requirements for a stand alone article - in Wikipedia terminology "be notable".

A band's management company and others affiliated with the band or the label or the management company have a conflict of interest and so are not supposed to directly edit articles where they have such a conflict, and websites and other materials created by them can only be used for limited purposes - such materials do nothing to establish "notability" and they may not be used for anything even slightly promotional. -- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom 13:58, 1 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Further to this, before you proceed with any further edits, you should review and understand the various policies and practicies in place at Wikipedia which affect how articles are edited. Conflict of interest (e.g. material on behalf of artist management) was already mentioned; Verifiability (i.e. you must include references for added/changed material, and you must not delete existing article references without valid cause).

However, the music notability guideline indicates that separate articles are often not justified for individual band members unless they have had significant activity beyond their band. Thereefore it seems more appropriate to redirect Felix Riebl to The Cat Empire article until more sources and content are available. Dl2000 (talk) 16:56, 1 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Your recent editing history at Felix Riebl shows that you are currently engaged in an edit war. Being involved in an edit war can result in your being blocked from editing—especially if you violate the three-revert rule, which states that an editor must not perform more than three reverts on a single page within a 24-hour period. Undoing another editor's work—whether in whole or in part, whether involving the same or different material each time—counts as a revert. Also keep in mind that while violating the three-revert rule often leads to a block, you can still be blocked for edit warring—even if you don't violate the three-revert rule—should your behavior indicate that you intend to continue reverting repeatedly.

To avoid being blocked, instead of reverting please consider using the article's talk page to work toward making a version that represents consensus among editors. See BRD for how this is done. You can post a request for help at a relevant noticeboard or seek dispute resolution. In some cases, you may wish to request temporary page protection. NeilN ^{talk to me} 23:04, 1 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

There is no "freedom of expression" on Wikipedia and no "right to an article." Content MUST be supported by appropriate reliable third party sources and meet the requirements for a stand alone page and be presented in the appropriate manner. If you dont want to edit within Wikipedia's policies, then you have the "freedom to express" yourself however you like, on your own web site, but not here. -- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom 23:25, 1 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]