User talk:DogPHman

Welcome!

Hello, DogPHman, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Again, welcome! Lsjzl 04:37, 18 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Please stop. If you continue to vandalize pages, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. --John Nagle 05:03, 18 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

This is your last warning. The next time you vandalize a page, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. --John Nagle 05:04, 18 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hollywood Undead

You have recently created the article Hollywood Undead. This was deleted in accordance with Wikipedia's deletion policies. Please do not recreate the article: if you disagree with the article's deletion, you may ask for a review at Wikipedia:Deletion review. I've now protected this article from recreation; please understand how your actions are disruptive. AmiDaniel (talk) 05:11, 18 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Since you're a new user, perhaps some explaination of what just happened is in order.

You're not the first to create an article for "Hollywood Undead"; yours is the fifth attempt. About a month ago, there was a serious discussion of whether Hollywood Undead was notable enough for Wikipedia. Wikipedia has standards for this (see WP:BAND) and the consensus was that the band isn't there yet. (Two albums on a major label is the basic threshold.) They weren't notable as a web site, either (see WP:WEB) This happens all the time; dozens of bands try to get into Wikipedia every day, and most of them get thrown out. In fact, about a thousand articles a day are deleted; it's not just you.

Under the rules of Wikipedia, once something has been thrown out, it's hard to get it back in. If it reappears, it's usually marked for "Speedy deletion", as you saw happen.

Removing a speedy deletion tag is a no-no. You can put in {{hangon}} and argue against it, but if you delete the tag, you're considered to be vandalizing Wikipedia. Repeatedly deleting the tag raises red flags.

Wikipedia lets anyone edit, and vandalism happens all the time. So there's an active system of people and programs watching for vandalism, and, as you saw, things happen if someone tries.

This isn't a big deal; feel free to edit articles on other subjects.

--John Nagle 05:27, 18 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Signing your posts

Regarding your comments on the Deletion Review for Hollywood Undead. The best thing to do is to remember to sign, the first time, with ~~~~ (not 3, not 5, but 4 ~). If you see another editor add a template to get your singature in there, leave it instead of signing again, because signing again hides the original timestamp of when you said what you said. It can sometimes be important to tell when that is, and it's easier to add it when the entry is soon in the history, than way later. In fact, if you forget, you yourself should just go into the history and find the right entry and use the {{unsigned2}} template to just paste your history entry in. Hope that helps, good luck with your deletion review. ++Lar: t/c 14:31, 18 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]