User talk:Makebamooncycle

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September 2013

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, your addition of one or more external links to the page Makeba Mooncycle has been reverted.
Your edit here to Makeba Mooncycle was reverted by an automated bot that attempts to remove links which are discouraged per our external links guideline. The external link(s) you added or changed (https://twitter.com/MakebaMooncycle) is/are on my list of links to remove and probably shouldn't be included in Wikipedia. If the external link you inserted or changed was to a blog, forum, free web hosting service, fansite, or similar site (see 'Links to avoid', #11), then please check the information on the external site thoroughly. Note that such sites should probably not be linked to if they contain information that is in violation of the creator's copyright (see Linking to copyrighted works), or they are not written by a recognised, reliable source. Linking to sites that you are involved with is also strongly discouraged (see conflict of interest).
If you were trying to insert an external link that does comply with our policies and guidelines, then please accept my creator's apologies and feel free to undo the bot's revert. However, if the link does not comply with our policies and guidelines, but your edit included other, constructive, changes to the article, feel free to make those changes again without re-adding the link. Please read Wikipedia's external links guideline for more information, and consult my list of frequently-reverted sites. For more information about me, see my FAQ page. Thanks! --XLinkBot (talk) 01:47, 28 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Please refrain from making nonconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did at Makeba Mooncycle with this edit. Your edits appear to constitute vandalism and have been reverted or removed. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Administrators have the ability to block users from editing if they repeatedly engage in vandalism. Thank you. ///EuroCarGT 03:01, 28 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Notability and COI

Hey, I thought I'd explain a little about our notability guidelines. To put it bluntly, notability is extremely hard to prove on Wikipedia, as you have to show that you've received coverage in enough reliable sources over a long enough period of time to pass WP:BAND. This is often most difficult to pass when someone isn't as mainstream as Lady Gaga or that horrid Miley Cyrus, but the problem is that we still have to have sourcing.

Reliable sources are considered to be things such as a review by a source that we consider to be a trusted authority. For example, if XXL Mag did a review for some of your music, that would be considered a reliable source, as would a review by say, the New York Times. However if they are only listing you as a brief mention by way of saying that you're to perform at an event or an off mention in relation to something else, then that could be considered a trivial source. Blog sources and primary sources (anything from yourself or anyone associated with you) can't show notability either. The reason is that even if you or the blog are telling the truth, we still need a reliable secondary source to back it up. It can be frustrating, to say the least.

In any case, this is why the page was deleted. Hope this explains what happened for you. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡) 04:21, 28 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]