User talk:Spongebob tales of a sudden death

Welcome![edit]

Hello, Spongebob tales of a sudden death, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few links to pages you might find helpful:

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Please Respond![edit]

Hi Spongebob tales of a sudden death and once again, welcome to Wikipedia! My name is Jpcase. I've been heavily involved with the SpongeBob SquarePants article here for some time now, and while contributions are always appreciated, there are certain rules and guidelines that should be followed - I've linked to a few of these above. Anyone can edit Wikipedia, but not every edit will be accepted. As you may have noticed, many of your edits have already been reverted.

I've noticed that you're interested in becoming an administrator. I'm not particularly familiar with the process that this involves. However, you aren't going to be granted that sort of responsibility until you've established yourself in the Wikipedia community. Show yourself to be a constructive editor over a long period of time, and you might get what you want. But I'm going to be frank - some of your edits, combined with the information that you've provided on your User Page, leaves the impression that you might be a vandal. A few of your edits appear well-meaning, so I won't rush to judgement about your intentions. Just note that if you're looking for kicks, you won't find many in trying to vandalize Wikipedia. There are many hard-working volunteers on this site. Every edit that you make on Wikipedia is being watched, and if you do anything that is deemed disruptive, then it will simply be reverted. If you display a pattern of suspicious editing, then you may eventually be blocked.

Whatever your original reasons were for coming to Wikipedia, I hope that you decide to stay! Editing Wikipedia can be a lot of fun, and it can be very rewarding. If you have any questions, do not hesitate to get in contact with me, either here or on my own talk page. --Jpcase (talk) 16:59, 27 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

One of the users told me to only put the original channel on the articles, but I suspected that SpongeBob SquarePants ran on Nickelodeon on CBS one time by checking the Dora the Explorer article. Encyclopedia Spongebobia says that the episode Gary Takes a Bath ran on Nicktoons TV before it ran on Nickelodeon. And I thought that TEENick broadcast the first runs of the series from 2004-2007.

I've wanted to become a Wikipedia administrator for a very long time now. Editing is both fun and important to me. Being an administrator seems both fun and important because of the things that they do. Spongebob tales of a sudden death (talk) 15:40, 27 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hey, thanks for the fast response! I've gone ahead and indented your reply for clarity's sake. This is done by adding a colon (:) before the main text of a post. The amount of indentation is controlled by the number of colons, and it's common practice to add one colon for each new reply - so I added one colon for your post above, and am using two colons for this post. If you reply again, then you should use three colons, and so on it would go.

I'm not actually all that concerned about your edits to the SpongeBob SquarePants article. In fact, your activity there is one of the reasons that I'm assuming you're probably not a vandal. The information that you added about the other TV channels seemed well-intentioned, even though it wasn't acceptable for inclusion. One of the things that you'll learn as an editor on Wikipedia, is that we aren't looking to include every single bit of information that we can find on a topic. We only want things that meet a certain standard of significance. In fact, if you click on the third link that I provided in my initial welcome - the link called "The Five Pillars of Wikipedia" - you'll find an important tip to keep in mind: Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information. So in other words, it very well may be true that SpongeBob aired on some of those channels, but if we were to add every single channel that the show has ever aired on, then the article would be a mess. So we only focus on the key points. In this case, the Infobox only called for the show's original channel, which would be Nickelodeon. You're right, the article for Dora the Explorer includes both Nick Jr. and Nick Jr. on CBS. However, note the dates in parentheses - it premiered on both channels in the same year, which would suggest that both channels could be seen as original channels. It's quite possible that SpongeBob has aired on Nickelodeon on CBS, but since it didn't premiere on that channel, it shouldn't be mentioned in the article. Since I'm not involved with the Dora article, I can't tell you why Nickelodeon is listed as a third "original channel" for the series - it might be a mistake or it might be that the series switched channels while still producing new episodes. If whole seasons of a show premiere on a separate channel from the show's "original channel", then it would certainly be appropriate to discuss that in the article. However, if we're only dealing with individual episodes - like "Gary Takes a Bath" - then that wouldn't be significant enough to mention.

Does that make sense? You might want to look over this page WP:Manual of Style/Television for some guidance on editing television-specific articles.

At first glance I thought that your edits at Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Nominate looked like attempts at vandalism. However, I now realize that you were probably just trying to nominate yourself as an administrator. Rather than replacing the text on that page with your username, I believe that you would have to add the text detailed in step 7 to your own page, and then replace the part of the text that says "USERNAME" with your own username. However, note the bold text in the box above the eleven steps - it says, Adminship is not for new and moderately experienced users. I'm glad to hear that you enjoy editing. You don't have to be an administrator in order to have fun on Wikipedia, and you certainly don't have to be an administrator in order to be important on Wikipedia. I've been a regular editor here for around six years and am not an Administrator. Most of the people that I've worked with are not administrators. And until you've been around for at least three months, you won't even be considered for the post - you've been around for about ten days.

But don't worry! There are a lot of other cool things that you can do on this site. Have you noticed the green circle in the top right corner of the SpongeBob article? Every article on Wikipedia has a "class", and that green circle means that the article has been ranked "GA-class", the second highest class for an article! Articles typically start at the bottom as "stubs", then move through "Start-class", "C-class", "B-class" and eventually "GA-class". If you've got a really great article, then you can finally nominate it for "FA-class", which gets a star in the top right corner (see The Simpsons). Bringing articles to FA-class is a very important part of what we do here at Wikipedia (arguably more important than being an administrator). Once articles have reached FA, then they can appear on the front page for a day! And then people all across the world will see the work that you've done!

And that's just the beginning. Getting a handle on editing can be rather difficult at first. There are still things that even I don't know! But I'm very happy to answer any questions that you may have. And after a while, you'll start to figure things out. --Jpcase (talk) 23:06, 27 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Reference errors on 8 July[edit]

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I just added the refrence, but it will only be available until 2:00 a.m. (11:00 p.m. Pacific). Also, today is my birthday. SpongeBob tales of a sudden death (talk) 00:52, 9 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Happy birthday![edit]

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Happy birthday "Spongebob tales of a sudden death"! I'm glad to see that you're enjoying your time on Wikipedia. Hope that the coming year is a good one for you and once again, if you ever have any questions feel free to ask me here or on my own talk page.--Jpcase (talk) 19:47, 9 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Tips on creating articles[edit]

Hey there! Thanks for the message that you left on my talk page last week. :) That was very sweet.

I'm happy to be Wiki-friends with you, and it's great to see that you've already created your first article! Let me share a few things that you'll want to keep in mind as you edit. All information that's added to Wikipedia requires referencing - without this, additions are likely to be removed. You might want to take another brief look at the page, Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information, but even more helpful to you right now are going to be the pages WP:Notability and WP:Identifying reliable sources. As I touched on earlier, just because something is true doesn't necessarily mean that it's notable enough for inclusion on Wikipedia. The way that we determine the "notability" of a topic is by seeing whether any "reliable sources" have written about it. So to keep Mission: 4Count from being deleted, what we're going to have to do is to illustrate that the topic meets Wikipedia's notability criteria.

It might seem kind of strange to you that a professionally made television series airing on TeenNick isn't automatically deemed notable. But the thing to keep in mind is that there are all kinds of online databases for finding the simple basics about a TV show. If someone wanted to say, find out who voices Patrick Star, then they could go to IMDB and see that it's Bill Faggerbakke. Information presented on Wikipedia needs to be encyclopedic, and that means we should be able to go beyond the simple basics. Unless we can write about a topic in a fair amount of depth, it very well may not belong on this website.

But don't worry! Articles about TV shows typically have no real trouble meeting the notability criteria. It's just that we have to find proof. Sometimes this can be a little tricky, but it's always a good idea to start with a simple Google search. Now, remember that I said reliable references. One of the first search results that I get for Mission: 4Count is from IMDB - does IMDB count as "reliable"? Well, take a look at the page that I linked to above on identifying reliable sources. You'll see down in this section that IMDB does not in fact meet our definition of a reliable reference, even though the website can certainly be quite handy at times. You'll also see websites like Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube show up on the first page of Google search results. Generally, none of these would be considered reliable either. What we need are news articles, interviews, behind the scenes videos, etc - anything that comes from a professional publication. One of the best ways to find references like this is to do a "Google News" search. If you've never done this before, then simply enter something into the Google search bar, and then right underneath that, you should see the word "Web" underlined and highlighted in red. Three spaces to the right of this, you'll see the word "News" - click on that. Now you should be receiving search results that come exclusively from news websites.

Since Mission: 4Count is still a fairly new series, there aren't a whole lot of news articles that have been written about it yet. This could potentially pose a problem for giving the series an entire Wikipedia article of its own. But if your "Google News" search results page looks the same as mine, then you should be seeing five different articles about Mission: 4Count, right at the top. This is definitely enough to say something about the series on Wikipedia, even if it has to be on another page (like List of programs broadcast by TeenNick for example). I think that it should be fine to keep the standalone article though. And if for whatever reason somebody objects, then all we have to do is wait a little while until more news article are written about the series - which shouldn't take long at all.

I don't want to hit you with too much information all at once (and I've got a few other things that I have to take care of tonight), so I'm going to leave things at that for now. Reply once you've read this, and if you are interested, I'll explain how to actually add those news articles as references. Or you can look around on your own and try to figure things out if you want. Either way, good job on creating your first article and thanks for your contributions! :) --Jpcase (talk) 22:10, 17 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Date ranges in headings and disruptive editing[edit]

Hi there, regarding this edit you should note that we do not use "present" in section headings. We use date ranges. A date range does not imply a series has ended. See WP:TVOVERVIEW for more information.

Unrelated to that, I'm not sure what your intention was when you made 20 edits at Lgnmrshllhlms talk page, but as I cycle through them, it looks to me like you were deliberately trying to harass this user. Whatever your intention, it is certainly disruptive. A copy/paste like that should only have taken one edit, not 20. It's also not clear why you restored another user's warning to that page at all. That's not your business to do. An editor can remove warnings from their talk page if they wish. Please read up on talk page guidelines. Thanks. Cyphoidbomb (talk) 17:12, 12 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

August 2015[edit]

Please do not add or change content, as you did at SpongeBob SquarePants (season 9), without citing a reliable source. Please review the guidelines at Wikipedia:Citing sources and take this opportunity to add references to the article. Diff: [1] Future events must be sourced per WP:CRYSTAL Cyphoidbomb (talk) 21:32, 12 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I'm also considering this edit to be clearly disruptive. You need to use common sense when editing here. If the "episode" that aired was a still photo of a jar of mayonnaise intended as an April Fool's joke, it is patently ridiculous and false to suggest that a lost episode aired on that network. Cyphoidbomb (talk) 21:40, 12 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you add unsourced material to Wikipedia, as you did at SpongeBob SquarePants (season 9). Diff: [2] A crew member might reasonably know what an episode is going to be titled, but a crew member does not have any control over when an episode airs, and is not in a position to confirm the airdate. The content must come from a reliable published source, like a television guide, which presumably gets its programming information directly from the people in charge of programming at the network. You really need to read WP:RS so you can figure out quickly what constitutes a reliable source. Cyphoidbomb (talk) 21:51, 12 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I'm giving you one last chance before I block your account, to read WP:RS. When you submit a reference, the reference has to be usable, i.e. reliable. Wikipedia does not consider any user-contributed website (any website that relies on user contributions for its content) to be reliable. IMDb, TV.com, TVTropes, Wikia.com, and even Wikipedia itself all rely on user-contributions. None of these sites are considered reliable per Wikipedia standards. This edit of yours suggests to me that you aren't interested in learning about what sources are sufficient. If that's the case, then the next time you add an inappropriate reference, your editing privileges will be suspended. The tools you need to edit successfully have been given to you. Cyphoidbomb (talk) 02:17, 13 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]