If you actually have a question, you are welcome to ask again. For now I have nulled the template as you haven't provided a question Pumpmeup09:33, 10 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
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Dear Surfer-boy94, please don't add the upcoming album name until it can be verified by reliable, third-party sources, I'm sure it will be just a matter of time, probably a day or so, but these types of things have been known to change, and her "official" site is not considered a reliable source. If you have a link from a news site (not video) that can show the album's name, not just the single, feel free to drop it on my page and I'll change it back. But I did do a Google news search, and currently, that title is only her single, from the "Forthcoming album" that's not given a name in the articles. I'm sure you understand, so please just wait a bit, and I'm sure the news services will pick up the title's release. Thanks! Ariel♥Gold12:35, 14 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Hey, sorry for reverting you, I think when most people type in tightrope, they're going to be looking for the object. How about this: Use {{redirect|tightrope|the album|Tightrope (Stephanie McIntosh album}}, which will produce
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This is your last warning. The next time you create an inappropriate page, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. Stop creating articles without any sources. Stop moving album articles without any confirmation of the title. As you've done here, "The album needs a title" is not a reliable source for an article move. Your mistakes moving the Britney Spears album article created double-redirects which you did not bother to fix. You've also created an unsourced article for an upcoming Fergie album and a Gia Farrell single, neither of which cited any sources. These have been reverted. Please stop ignoring attempts for communication from other editors. It is not fair that others have to clean up after you. - eo12:29, 30 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Hey, thanks for the note. There's not really a set time after which you get blocked permanently, it's more up to the administrator's discretion and the particular case. But you're right that each block is usually longer than the last. My recommendation would be to talk to the people who blocked you or warned you, see if you can get them to explain exactly why you were blocked so you can avoid doing it in the future. In the future, if there's anything you're not sure about, you can always leave a note on the article's talk page suggesting the material, and see if others have a problem with it. If no one does, you can go ahead, I can't imagine someone being mad about that. Or you can always feel free to ask me for help or advice, I'll do whatever I can to help. Peace, delldottalk16:45, 4 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
So Not Me - no content, so sources, all speculation and guessing
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Hi again. I think it's admirable that you're trying to get a new respectable start. You're not really supposed to remove warnings from your talk page (well, there's not consensus about it, but it's really frowned upon by a lot of people), but you can archive your talk page. Basically you cut and paste everything on this talk page to an archive subpage, for example named User talk:Surfer-boy94/Archive 1. That way, if someone needs to find something they left for you a while back, it's still there, but no one will just stumble across it. Now, archiving your talk page can be seen as a little sneaky, like you're trying to hide something, but you can leave an edit summary while you're archiving like "archiving: not trying to hide anything, I just want a fresh start", hopefully people will understand.
About the apologies, I think they'd work a lot better coming from you! You also know who exactly is annoyed at you and who you'd like to apologize to. Just leave them a note on their talk page explaining that you know you've made mistakes in the past but you want to fix them. If any of them respond well, you can go to them in the future with specific questions about sourcing, e.g. what counts as a reliable source and so on. If not, you're stuck with me ;)
I don't think you can add anyone as a friend the way you would on myspace, the closest thing is just to be friendly with people. If you think they've done a good job at something, let them know.
I think the most important thing is to listen to people's concerns and not repeat the mistakes they bring to your attention. If in doubt, ask first before doing something that may be a repeat of an old mistake.
Sorry not to be more help. Let me know how it goes with the new leaf, and drop me another note if you need anything else! Peace, delldottalk12:51, 7 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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An editor has nominated Vanessa Hudgens Second Studio Album, an article on which you have worked or that you created, for deletion. We appreciate your contributions, but the nominator doesn't believe that the article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion and has explained why in his/her nomination (see also "What Wikipedia is not").
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Even after you edited it, most of the sources don't qualify as reliables sources. Take a look here for the rules. I might let www.eonline.com slide, but that article doesn't say anything at all ... no tracks, no title, nothing. The sources that are giving you titles and tracks are all blogs. There really isn't a rush. Sometime soon, she will release information, and then you can build an article. Until there's information, there's no reason for an article.Kww (talk) 01:05, 23 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Absolutely no problem to do it then. When she releases an album, it will qualify for an article. If she gives a detailed announcement, it may qualify then. It just doesn't qualify yet.Kww (talk) 01:12, 23 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
First, you should read the famous essay, Other Crap Exists. That aside,
Coldplay's article has information from Billboard and Coldplay's official site. Oasis's has material from Reuters. Madonna's article looks like a pure rumor piece, and the sources look like garbage to me. I'll look it over in the morning, and probably nominate it for deletion as well if I don't see something new that impresses me. A lot of these articles do live when they really shouldn't. I just monitor the Disney pages for vandalism and gossip, so I noticed this album. I wouldn't notice Madonna albums. It's really mainly about sourcing.Kww (talk) 04:05, 23 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Well it is impossible to fully relinquish your editing history. There are three things you can do basically:
Change your account name. That will give editors an easy point in time that they can call the rebirth of Surfer-boy94 :D
Abandon your current account and create a new account; Start your edit-history from scratch. In this situation you could consider redirecting the user and talk pages of your old account to your new account so that people can still reach you and to keep a "transparent situation". This is not required however and a rename might be just as suitable in that case.
You can let it be as it is. None of the editors start out perfectly. In the end, the only thing that counts is your current behaviour and skills and how you interact with people. If you can show and acknowledge that you have changed, than editors will respect that just as much as they would have otherwise. It might take a longer time, but you will succeed in the end.
That is as much as I can advise you on "getting clean". Just make good edits and if you give it time, people will start to appreciate those more than they will remember your history. --TheDJ (talk • contribs) 02:25, 1 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I suddenly realize that perhaps you just want to clear your Talk page. You can simply edit the page and remove all elements that are no longer current. Just be sure to say something like: "removing old messages" in the edit summary. Alternatively, you can archive your talk page. If you have trouble figuring that out, I would not mind doing that for you. --TheDJ (talk • contribs) 02:55, 1 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Hi Surfer-boy, I think you've made a great start by asking other editors for advice and guidance. I also see you're beginning to get involved in other areas, such as WP:AfD - this is also good. I noticed that an editor above suggested starting off fresh with a new user name - that is definitely an option. If you don't want to do this, clear your Talk Page and be sure to archive it.
Some advice for you:
Don't concentrate so much on creating articles. Instead, work to improve already-existing articles.
Having sources is very important but it's not the only thing that makes an article a good one. Start slow with minor edits, such as spelling, grammar and wikilink fixes.
Don't ignore comments and/or warnings left on your Talk Page.
I notice you like to edit music-related articles. I'm the same way. What helped me with writing in neutral point-of-view is to work on articles for artists, songs or albums that I either personally dislike or personally have no opinion. When writing about artists that you looooove, people naturally tend to inject a little bit of their personal agenda into it. Practice NPOV on, say, an album article that is nothing but a track list stub for an artist you neither like nor dislike.
Use article talk pages to gather opinions from other editors. Look at the "User contributions" for editors that you like. Look at page diffs to see what types of edits usually stay and what types of edits usually get reverted.
If your goal is to someday be an admin, definitely become involved in different areas of Wikipedia. There are so many pages in WP that are help sections, policies, guidelines, instructions, noticeboards, etc., etc., etc. Take time to browse through them. For example if you're beginning to nominate articles for deletion, spend some time in that section and add your comments to other editors' nominations.
Just use common sense. If something doesn't seem right in an article, it's probably not.
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Hey yeah our music taste rocks. Nah I don't know when sims 3 is coming out in Australia and i dont think ill get it, it will probly take up too much space on my computer, how about you? Lillygirl (talk) 09:55, 17 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Hey Surfer, when you build a wikipedia page with references you need to properly place a references tag so that they show up. Someone might get confused and think you have an unsourced article if you don't. I don't think I can paste the actual code in a talk page, but the tag is:
You aren't allowed to build your user pages in article space. You are about to see a whole host of deletions take place, and might wind up getting yelled at.Kww (talk) 01:25, 24 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Sure you can make user pages. For you, they should have names like User:Surfer-boy94/fill-in-your-favorite-page-name. You can't put them in the main article space (like just "Surfer-boy94").Kww (talk) 01:31, 24 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
The only thing still wrong is that you don't really own "Surfer-Boy94". If you want to have that page redirect to you, you should create the "Surfer-Boy94" account (just log out, and then create the new account). That's what I did to get User:KWW and User:Kww.Kww (talk) 01:40, 24 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
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Hi Surfer-boy94. I note you left a message on my talk page regarding adminship. A quick look at your contributions suggests that at the current time you would fail a request for adminship. You have a relatively low number of contributions, 961 which makes it hard to gauge how you deal with different situations. You also need to increase the proportion of the time where you provide an edit summary. I see that you've been blocked on two occasions and have a large number of messages about various issues on your talk page. All of this won't help you and you'll need to spend a significant amount of time editing until you're at such a point where it might be worthwhile requesting adminship. Regards. Adambro (talk) 17:12, 19 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Hi Surfer, got your note. I'll be perfectly honest, since I'm sure that's what you want: I think you should wait on requesting adminship, I'm pretty sure you couldn't pass right now. Looking at your count, I see a few things that might be problems: you're only using edit summaries about half the time (you might want to aim for 100%; they're helpful to other users when your edits show up in their watchlists). Plus you "only" have around 1000 edits, which, believe it or not, is very unlikely to be enough; many RfA voters look for 3000-5000 edits. The amount of time you've spent on the project is plenty, but time alone isn't enough: you need experience with a diversity of areas of the project. You don't seem to have much experience editing the project space (Wikipedia: and Wikipedia talk: namespaces), which will also probably hurt your chances. Lastly, from your username, I'm assuming you're 13 or 14, which, I'm really sorry to say, will likely get you oppose votes (it's pure ageism). Not much you can do about that, but the more maturely you conduct yourself the less that will hurt you. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news!
My recommendation would be to keep up the good work, and to consider getting even more deeply involved in an area, perhaps working to get an article up to GA or FA status. Not only is that very rewarding, it gives you a lot of interaction with people and various parts of the project as well as informing you about policies. I'd wait to RfA until you have a good few thousand edits and some solid more experience in a few areas of the project (e.g. getting some GA's or FA's).
If you'd like a more thorough review of your editing, let me know and I can look through the history of your interactions with other users (e.g. talk page edits) and your work on the project. If you ever need my help, please don't hesitate to ask. Peace, delldot on a public computertalk04:01, 20 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Nah, I doubt changing your name would help, it'll always be known what it was before it changed (If you did want to, you could do it through WP:CHU). Unless you create a new account or something, which would be silly for a little thing like that, and wouldn't be in the spirit of honesty and transparency. I'd just take my lumps. In my honest opinion, it'll be a while before you're ready to submit a request anyway, so you may be 15 or so when you do anyway. It's too bad the standards for adminship are so high, but there you have it. In the mean time, if you need any admin stuff done, you can always talk to me or another admin, or leave a note on one of the request pages (depending on what you need done). Peace, delldot on a public computertalk05:02, 20 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
In response to your comment on my talk page Surfer-boy94, I would suggest you stick with this account and continue to work towards gaining the experience that will be required to become an administrator. Whilst a history of problematic editing might be frowned upon, if you can demonstrate that you've learn from these experiences and now better understand how Wikipedia works then I would hope that you'd be respected for this. Delldot makes some good points. Regards. Adambro (talk) 10:18, 20 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
That Mariah Carey song has charted. Have the ones you're concerned about? WP:MUSIC is pretty clear. That's why I left the one single by the same artist alone but redirected the other two. It's not as though I made these rules. They're consensus. If you really think it's wrong, you're welcome to try to build consensus for a change. That's how things work here. Erechtheus (talk) 04:11, 21 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
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A proposed deletion template has been added to the article Frankee discography, suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process. All contributions are appreciated, but this article may not satisfy Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and the deletion notice should explain why (see also "What Wikipedia is not" and Wikipedia's deletion policy). You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{dated prod}} notice, but please explain why you disagree with the proposed deletion in your edit summary or on its talk page.
For someone who wants to be an admin, you need to learn not to edit war. If you disagree with my edits, let's discuss them on the article's respective talk pages. Removing the prod was fine, but you're reverting a lot of WP:MOS and other proper format changes. Please comment on each article's talk page about the changes you disagree with. —Hello, ControlHello, Tony09:30, 25 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
An indefinite block lasts until the user is unblocked. I have blocked all of the confirmed socks - please treat this as a final warning that sockpuppetry won't be tolerated, and if you're found engaging in it in the future then an indefinite block will no doubt follow. GBT/C17:11, 27 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
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