User talk:Dakotathomas

Reliable sources please

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Please do not add content without citing reliable sources, as you did to Charlize Theron. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you. --Yamla 04:44, 22 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

71839j

Welcome to Wikipedia! We welcome your help to create new content, but your recent additions (such as 71839j) are considered nonsense. Please refrain from creating nonsense articles. If you want to test things out, edit the sandbox instead. Take a look at the welcome page if you would like to learn more about contributing to our encyclopedia. Peripitus (Talk) 05:46, 6 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Same with 12163331810. NawlinWiki 05:48, 6 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

If you don't believe me you can call the number yourself. It is really becoming a big thing. The text messages are spreading like crazy. I have done a lot of research on this, and it does not seem nonsense at all, because ,it is affecting so many people.

Welcome!

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1-216-333-1810

Welcome to Wikipedia! We welcome your help to create new content, but your recent additions (such as 1-216-333-1810) are considered nonsense. Please refrain from creating nonsense articles. If you want to test things out, edit the sandbox instead. Take a look at the welcome page if you would like to learn more about contributing to our encyclopedia. I can understand how it's interesting, but you have no sources. You've been notified above about posting these already. Changing article names slightly doesn't make it any better. Please don't post this again. Continuing to do so is disruptive, and will get you blocked from editing. --Auto^{(talk / contribs)} 16:04, 11 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

It seems that this has merit, though it'll need some work. Explanation on the talk page of linked article. --Auto^{(talk / contribs)} 16:22, 11 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Just to let you know that this number is rumored to be a promotional thing for Nine Inch Nails new album Year Zero. If you go to the Year Zero wikipedia page it does mention the phone number under Phone Numbers. So, the page I created and that phone number on the Year Zero page are one in the same. It hasn't been decided upon if the number is an actual 911 phone call or not.

Clearly it's promotional. If it wasn't related to a Nine Inch Nails release, it wouldn't be notable enough to include and the article would be removed by now. I'm still trying to make it a less likely candidate for somebody else to yank. --Auto^{(talk / contribs)} 16:38, 11 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

In regard to this article, the article should not be based on what the phone conversation fictionally is in the context of the Nine Inch Nails album, as it currently is. The article should describe what it actually is in the context of the real world. See Wikipedia:Manual of Style (writing about fiction). --Metropolitan90 16:44, 11 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Dakotathomas: Don't fake signatures as you did in the talk page of this article. It's another thing that will get you blocked. --Auto^{(talk / contribs)} 16:51, 11 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I didn't fake the signature. I just copied it from ninwiki.com I thought you were the same sight because everything on that sight looks exactly the same. http://www.ninwiki.com/Talk:12163331810 Get over yourselfs and stop jumping down my throat before you ask or check things out. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dakotathomas (talk • contribs)

Why was my article deleted?

Your article was deleted because the community reached a concensus that it wasn't noteworthy enough on its own. I suggest you work on expanding the section on the album page instead of having a full article. I'll be happy to assist. --Auto^{(talk / contribs)} 03:32, 12 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Actually, the problem was nothing to do with noteworthiness and everything to do with reliably sourcing your contributions, and the same will apply to the album page as applied to the articles and you'll experience the same problems if you don't adhere to our policies. See the discussion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Nine Inch Nails advertising. Here at Wikipedia we set higher standards than at some other wikis. Our goal is to create an encyclopaedia where readers can trust that everything is correct because everything here can be checked, by those readers, against sources outside of Wikipedia that can be trusted to have checked their facts and undergone a review process, and that represent knowledge that is genuinely already accepted into and a part of the corpus of human knowledge. That means that we don't want content that falsely represents fiction as fact, or that is based upon rumour, or whose provenance is bad. Wikipedia is not a big grab bag of everything that can be taken from a web page or a discussion forum post. Its goal is to be an encyclopaedia, not a mirror. Readers can confirm from reliable sources, who have actually done the legwork, that there is a promotional campaign being run for this forthcoming album, and a Wikipedia article may thus say that. However, dressing up the fiction itself that forms a part of that promotional campaign as if it were fact is not what we want. We can record the elements of that promotional campaign based upon what reliable sources have already written about it (if they have written anything at all), but we must not add our own new suppositions and hypotheses, we must not go beyond what the sources document, and we must not use bad sources. Works of fiction are not sources for factual, real world, information. Readers, quite obviously, cannot confirm, as fact, fictional realities employed by promotional campaigns. Indeed, quite the opposite is the case here. Uncle G 04:30, 12 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Dakota A. Thomas

The article Dakota A. Thomas has been speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This was done because the article seemed to be about a person, group of people, band, club, company, or web content, but it did not indicate how or why the subject is notable, that is, why an article about that subject should be included in Wikipedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, articles that do not assert notability may be deleted at any time. If you can indicate why the subject is really notable, you are free to re-create the article, making sure to cite any verifiable sources.

Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable, and for specific types of articles, you may want to check out our criteria for biographies, for web sites, for bands, or for companies. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. See also WP:COI. NawlinWiki 04:45, 9 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Similarly, your edit to The People Under the Stairs appears to be adding information of a self-promotional nature. Remember that Wikipedia is not a place for self-promotion and to avoid conflict of interest. MKoltnow 04:49, 9 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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