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Welcome![edit]

Hello, Dvdfever, and welcome to Wikipedia. We appreciate encyclopedic contributions, but some of your recent contributions seem to be advertising or for promotional purposes. Wikipedia does not allow advertising. For more information on this, please see:

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Welcome[edit]

Welcome to Wikipedia. To find out more about how to make useful contributions, take a look at the welcome page. To stay in Wikipedia, an article has to be about something notable, that is, of general interest. Click on Notability for an explanation of what that means, and on Notability (people) for more detail. Also, it must give independently verifiable sources. Articles that don't meet these requirements are deleted. Follow the links below to learn more:

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JohnCD (talk) 15:46, 1 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Notability of Dom Robinson[edit]

A tag has been placed on Dom Robinson requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done because the article appears to be about a real person, organization (band, club, company, etc.), or web content, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is notable: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, articles that do not indicate the subject's importance or significance may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable. If this is the first page that you have created, then you should read the guide to writing your first article.

If you think that you can assert the notability of the subject, you may contest the deletion by adding {{hangon}} to the top of the page (just below the existing speedy deletion or "db" tag), coupled with adding a note on the article's talk page explaining your position, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the article meets the criterion it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would confirm the subject's notability under Wikipedia guidelines.

For guidelines on 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. JohnCD (talk) 15:46, 1 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

April 2009[edit]

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, your addition of one or more external links to the page Lauren Crace has been reverted.

Your edit here was reverted by an automated bot that attempts to remove unwanted links and spam from Wikipedia. The external link you added or changed is on my list of links to remove and probably shouldn't be included in Wikipedia. The external links I reverted were matching the following regex rule(s): \byoutube\.com (links: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgwphjxwkpo/). If the external link you inserted or changed was to a media file (e.g. a sound or video file) on an external server, then note that linking to such files may be subject to Wikipedia's copyright policy and therefore probably should not be linked to. Please consider using our upload facility to upload a suitable media file. Video links are also strongly deprecated by our guidelines for external links, partly because they're useless to people with slow internet connections.

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 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) 23:12, 7 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

  1. Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, one or more of the external links you added to the page Lauren Crace do not comply with our guidelines for external links and have been removed. Wikipedia is not a collection of links; nor should it be used for advertising or promotion. Since Wikipedia uses nofollow tags, external links do not alter search engine rankings. If you feel the link should be added to the article, please discuss it on the article's talk page before reinserting it. Please take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia.  
    Your edit here was reverted by an automated bot that attempts to remove unwanted links and spam from Wikipedia. The external link you added or changed is on my list of links to remove and probably shouldn't be included in Wikipedia. The external links I reverted were matching the following regex rule(s): \byoutube\.com (links: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgwphjxwkpo/, http://www.youtube.com/index?ytsession=wfvWydk8wrfaw06ejEemgrnbNQx7A0Q2C95FpG72PjvtT_2X5_Cwdo2NOUyJhnvr7dh14Yd7fKxBZa4ZHOjS45vgRRCnr3FC8uS9YSlpA-CzvX7EXogHCG5Z05vaN_LcXH9FPEUJkxcDPLL6FDk1Q1GIe2GX2xIMZc-8_CiT88joo1BEED8PtQRFayX02Hlw9WwRLchpSpCaVHgE33_CL7_BL3BDikWrx0wCe6sPlVLWZ-FfVI8U0l7HVHnNrEH6ZXSkCW0Lm7nS_QmXranjrl_gLSDk53Ew6WinkwiJS5U24PwmfKhm_g (redirect from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgwphjxwkpo/)). If the external link you inserted or changed was to a media file (e.g. a sound or video file) on an external server, then note that linking to such files may be subject to Wikipedia's copyright policy and therefore probably should not be linked to. Please consider using our upload facility to upload a suitable media file. Video links are also strongly deprecated by our guidelines for external links, partly because they're useless to people with slow internet connections.
    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 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) 16:11, 26 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Lauren Crace[edit]

Sorry, we just do not link to copyright violations on YouTube: please see here. If you add such links again, you may well end up being blocked. Thanks. Rodhullandemu 13:13, 27 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

October 2013[edit]

Information icon Hello, I'm Nymf. I wanted to let you know that I undid one or more of your recent contributions to Beyond: Two Souls because it appeared to be promotional. Advertising and using Wikipedia as a "soapbox" are against Wikipedia policy and not permitted. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about Wikipedia. Thank you. Nymf (talk) 19:13, 28 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Reply: Hi Nymf, thanks for your message. Apologies if I misunderstood things, but how do the likes of Eurogamer, Digital Spy, et al, add their scores if things get hastily edited out, please?

July 2014[edit]

Information icon Hello, I'm DonQuixote. I wanted to let you know that I undid one or more of your recent contributions to Deep Breath (Doctor Who) because it appeared to be promotional. Advertising is against Wikipedia policy and not permitted. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about Wikipedia. Thank you. DonQuixote (talk) 23:01, 13 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Username warning[edit]

Welcome to Wikipedia. I noticed that your username, "Dvdfever", may not comply with our username policy. Please note that you may not use a username that represents the name of a company, group, organization, product, or website. Examples of usernames that are not allowed include "XYZ Company", "MyWidgetsUSA.com", and "Trammel Museum of Art". However, you are invited to use a username that contains such a name if it identifies you personally, such as "Mark at WidgetsUSA", "Jack Smith at the XY Foundation", and "WidgetFan87".

Please also note that Wikipedia does not allow accounts to be shared by multiple people, and that you may not advocate for or promote any company, group, organization, product, or website, regardless of your username. Moreover, I recommend that you read our conflict of interest guideline. If you are a single individual and are willing to contribute to Wikipedia in an unbiased manner, please create a new account or request a username change that complies with our username policy. If you believe that your username does not violate our policy, please leave a note here explaining why. Thank you. - Arjayay (talk) 19:20, 14 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Please change it to show "Dom Robinson" instead of "DVDfever" if it's a problem. No-one's ever said it's an issue before and I don't know how to change it. It's just the username I registered with as I use it on other sites. Do I still log in as 'dvdfever' but it'll now show 'Dom Robinson', please? Dvdfever (talk) 19:26, 14 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

December 2014[edit]

Please stop your disruptive editing, as you did at Talk:Assassin's Creed Unity. Your edits have been reverted or removed.

Do not continue to make edits that appear disruptive until the dispute is resolved through consensus. Continuing to edit disruptively may result in your being blocked from editing. — {{U|Technical 13}} (e • t • c) 22:46, 14 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Pardon? I am NOT being disruptive. I was actually thankful of Cannolis. I have simply asked how I am meant to be provide evidence of how my website and opinion could be of value. Clearly, there is a way to doing this which I want to know. I don't understand why you are shutting me out. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dvdfever (talk • contribs)

  • There is currently no way that you are going to convince anyone that your website adds any value to that article. That is what people have tried explaining to you. Generally, only reputable news source websites and if one exists, the website for the topic of the article are allowed in articles. Feel free to find other ways to contribute, but do not reactivate that request. You are welcome to ask on a new user help desk (such as TH/Q or HD) for other types of assistance with editing. Good luck and happy editing! — {{U|Technical 13}} (e • t • c) 23:26, 14 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Why is mine not "reputable"? Dvdfever (talk) 23:29, 14 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

  • That would be a great question to ask on one of those help desks I offered above if reading Wikipedia:Identifying reliable sources doesn't make it obvious to you. Please make sure to indicate on the help desk that you choose what your website is and ask a clear question to get the best response. Good luck! — {{U|Technical 13}} (e • t • c) 23:38, 14 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Just before I go to the help desk, can you point me in the direction of where on that reliable sources page I should be looking, please? I'm not trying to be disruptive, I'm just trying to work out why the likes of IGN and Gamespot are allowed to have their reviews on your site, but not mine.Dvdfever (talk) 23:49, 14 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

  • Firstly, you posting information from your website falls under WP:UGC. Secondly, and more importantly, your site isn't notable in of itself; as such, it falls under the umbrella of WP:QUESTIONABLE. Sites like IGN and Gamespot have been verified and have been written about in other reliable sources making them notable and reliable by wiki-standards as well. — {{U|Technical 13}} (e • t • c) 00:08, 15 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome and assistance[edit]

Hi Dvdfever! I cam across the problems you've been having via Twitter. I'm happy to help if you have any questions - it seems there's been a lot of pointing to different forums, but perhaps not quite enough in the way of simple answers. :) Thus if you need any help just toss the questions my way and I'll help out where I can. :) - Bilby (talk) 11:09, 15 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

This user's request to be unblocked to request a change in username has been reviewed by an administrator, who declined the request. Other administrators may also review this block, but should not override the decision without a good reason (see the blocking policy). Do not remove this unblock review while you are blocked.

Dvdfever (block log • active blocks • global blocks • autoblocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))

Requested username:

Request reason:

I am trying to understand what makes my site notable. For example, there are a number of links to my site which state "retrived" and then the date of retrieval. I assumed that either this was an automatic process, or that someone at Wikipedia had considered the page on my site notable.

I started looking into all this when I saw that there were links from Wikipedia coming into my site. I had not posted any of these links myself, but whereas certain other websites would allow me to do that, that is why I started enquiring this with yourselves.

I now know that this is not allowed. I accept that. I will never be posting any links to my site at any time. I will not create a Wikipedia page for my site.

I do feel that each time I make a query to yourselves, I frequently get a heavy-handed response, which just assumes the worst of me and not that I am trying to do right by yourselves.

I would be very grateful if you would unblock my account. Thankyou.

Decline reason:

What edits do you want to make, if unblocked? PhilKnight (talk) 10:54, 9 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Er... I gave a reason, but PhilKnight has quoted someone else's reason. Can you dig out my reason? Dvdfever (talk) 18:14, 14 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]
I'm sorry for that and have restored the original reason; I assume PhilKnight screwed up while dealing with multiple unblock requests. His question remains, though: What edits do you want to make, if unblocked?
Regarding your website, there are two unrelated issues: Notability on Wikipedia is a property of article topics and would be relevant if you wanted to write an article about your website (which I'd strongly advise against due to the obvious conflict of interest); it's measured by the amount of coverage in reliable sources a topic has received. Basically, if no one else has written about it, neither should Wikipedia. The other issue is reliability. A source is considered reliable if it's subject to oversight by an editorial staff and has a reputation for fact-checking and accuracy, like newspapers or reputable magazines. I do not think your personal website meets that standard. What makes your writings any more significant than my own, or anybody else's? Is your site treated as a significant source of reviews by others whose reliability is not in doubt? Does, for example, aggregator Rotten Tomatoes consider you an expert film critic? Huon (talk) 19:31, 14 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Allow me to apologize for the harsh treatment you got. You see, Wikipedia's Alexa ranking is in single digits (read: within the top 10 visted websites in the world), and so there is a lot of incentive for people to use it to advertise or spread the word, neither of which we allow. As a result, admins come down very hard on anyone whose apparent sole purpose is advertising. While it does not justify how you were treated necessarily, I hope this explains the matter a bit from our end. —Jeremy v^_^v Bori! 20:51, 8 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

January 2015[edit]

Your account has been blocked indefinitely from editing Wikipedia because it appears to be mainly intended for publicity and/or promotional purposes. If you intend to edit constructively in other topic areas, you may be granted the right to continue under a change of username. Please read the following carefully.
Why can't I edit Wikipedia?

Your account's edits and/or username indicate that it is being used on behalf of a company, group, website or organization for purposes of promotion and/or publicity. The edits may have violated one or more of our rules on spamming, which include: adding inappropriate external links, posting advertisements and using Wikipedia for promotion. Wikipedia has many articles on companies, groups, and organizations, but such groups are generally discouraged from using Wikipedia to write about themselves. In addition, usernames like yours are disallowed under our username policy.

Am I allowed to make these edits if I change my username?

Probably not, although if you can demonstrate a pattern of future editing in strict accordance with our neutral point of view policy, you may be granted this right. See Wikipedia's FAQ for Organizations for a helpful list of frequently asked questions by people in your position. Also, review the conflict of interest guidance to see the kinds of limitations you would have to obey if you did want to continue editing about your company, group, organization, or clients. If this does not fit in with your goals, then you will not be allowed to edit Wikipedia again.

What can I do now?

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If you do intend to make useful contributions here about some other topic, you must convince a Wikipedia administrator that you mean it. To that end, please do the following:

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If you believe this block was made in error, you may appeal this block by adding the text {{unblock|Your reason here}} below, but you should read the guide to appealing blocks first. Huon (talk) 00:08, 22 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
This user's unblock request has been reviewed by an administrator, who declined the request. Other administrators may also review this block, but should not override the decision without good reason (see the blocking policy).

Dvdfever (block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))

Request reason:

I am NOT trying to promote my website. If the username is a problem, then please change it to my name, Dom Robinson. I have simply been asking questions and almost every single one has been misinterpreted. Please unblock me.

Decline reason:

I'm sorry, but looking back through your editing history, I can see a tremendous amount of self-promotion. I'm very uncomfortable unblocking as long as you're not clear with WP:COI. A pledge to cease any and all edits which involve links to your site or your other interests would be helpful. Kuru (talk) 12:26, 22 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

If you want to make any further unblock requests, please read the guide to appealing blocks first, then use the {{unblock}} template again. If you make too many unconvincing or disruptive unblock requests, you may be prevented from editing this page until your block has expired. Do not remove this unblock review while you are blocked.

This user's unblock request has been reviewed by an administrator, who declined the request. Other administrators may also review this block, but should not override the decision without good reason (see the blocking policy).

Dvdfever (block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))

Request reason:

Anyone? Dvdfever (talk) 19:58, 17 February 2015 (UTC) General edits that anyone would make if they saw something incorrect on the site, or something that needed adding, but obviously not promoting anything of mine in any way. Hence, I would be abiding by Wikipedia's rules in full. Dvdfever (talk) 19:35, 14 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Decline reason:

I don't feel comfortable unblocking you until you answer the below questions from Phil. — Coffee // have a cup // beans // 16:56, 20 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

If you want to make any further unblock requests, please read the guide to appealing blocks first, then use the {{unblock}} template again. If you make too many unconvincing or disruptive unblock requests, you may be prevented from editing this page until your block has expired. Do not remove this unblock review while you are blocked.

This user's request to be unblocked to request a change in username has been reviewed by an administrator, who accepted the request.

Dvdfever (block log • active blocks • global blocks • autoblocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))

Requested username:

Request reason:

Yes, I fully understand all those questions from Phil and will abide by them. Thankyou.

Accept reason:

Allowing username change to requested username. Please put this request in at Wikipedia:Changing username as soon as possible to avoid re-blocking. PhilKnight (talk) 15:22, 22 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]
This user's request to be unblocked to request a change in username has been reviewed by an administrator, who accepted the request.

Dvdfever (block log • active blocks • global blocks • autoblocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))

Requested username:

Request reason:

I did a username check and "Dom Robinson" didn't come up, though - I'm responding to k6ka's post on the Changing Username page, as they haven't replied

Accept reason:

Procedural close as you are not currently blocked. In the future please do not use this template unless you are blocked. — Coffee // have a cup // beans // 21:05, 24 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Here are a few key questions:

You are currently blocked because your username appears directly related to a company, group or product that you have been promoting, contrary to the username policy. Changing the username will not allow you to violate the 3 important principles above. PhilKnight (talk) 12:28, 22 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Your attention needed at WP:CHU[edit]

Hello. A bureaucrat or clerk has responded to your username change request, but requires clarification before moving forward. Please follow up at your username change request entry as soon as possible. Thank you. --I am k6ka Talk to me! See what I have done 22:41, 22 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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