User talk:SelfPityingStan

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Happy editing! Quantum^Realm (meow🦁 • pawtrack🐾) 17:37, 11 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hi there

Can you help? I see in the cluster of advisories atop my page one about "notability" of a music page. Pink Peg Slax released multiple vinyl records and one CD and appeared on national BBC radio, so I don't understand. I've seen many articles on similar bands with no such advisories.

Regards

Mark SelfPityingStan (talk) 09:48, 15 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I'm the one who put the tags on there. I'll explain them here:

"may need to be rewritten" and "may be in need of reorganization": Skimming over the article, its way too long than it needs to be, in my opinion. A main concern is having the albums in the article; I would say that the album, including the track listing, isn't needed at all and can be condensed down to sentences or a paragraph. Albums should normally be its own article, unless its not notable itself (in which it should just be mentioned in the band article).
"may not meet Wikipedia's notability guideline for music" and "needs additional citations for verification": most of the references are from Discogs, which is not considered a reliable source because it is user generated per WP:DISCOGS. All the other references are not about the band, and barely mention them (in some cases, don't mention them at all), so they don't count towards notability. Overall, the sources currently don't establish that its a notable band. A lot of the main text isn't sourced either, so that doesn't help.

If I'm being honest, you should have gone through WP:AFC instead of moving it to mainspace so that it could be worked out on how the article should be, or if the band is notable. reppop^talk 20:21, 20 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Pink Peg Slax[edit]

Hey, I got notified about a linking between Pink Peg Slax and André Jacquemin‬, André was a French bishop and died in 1975, it is completely illogical and quite impossible for them to have produced an album in the '80s. I have removed the Wikilink and left it as black text, (i.e. normal text, blue means a link on Wikipedia). 多多 123 14:47, 24 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Different Andre Jacquemin

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0415114/ SelfPityingStan (talk) 22:36, 8 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@SelfPityingStan: Thank you for replying, as of now I see it of somewhat importance to start a page on this person, you may like to include more of their songs such as the one he was nominated for in the 1983 film Monty Python's The Meaning of Life. If you need help with this, please do not hesitate to ask, or if you wouldn't be interested on taking on this new project I may do it instead; however, seeing as you are already fairly acquainted with some history of his career I believe you would be more prepared to start such a page. Thank you, A.B.123 (talk) 11:49, 10 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Links on Pink Peg Slax[edit]

I'd like to advise you to read this page, I'd also like to thank you for your participation in the Wikipedia English project, but please do not add unnecessary external links. Others may see this as spam or vandalism. I understand you're quite new to editing (User talk:SelfPityingStan#Welcome!). If you need any help you can go to the community portal or leave a message on my page, (as I'm the one leaving this warning) or an admin. 多多 123 15:02, 24 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

OK, you're right. I will clean it up. SelfPityingStan (talk) 22:35, 8 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion nomination of File:Pink Peg Slax in Tetley Bar.png[edit]

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Speedy deletion nomination of File:Maida Vale cropped and compressed for web.jpg[edit]

A tag has been placed on File:Maida Vale cropped and compressed for web.jpg requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section F9 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a copyright violation and has no credible claim of fair use or permission. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images taken from other web sites or printed material, and as a consequence, your addition will most likely be deleted. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing.

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Wikipedia and copyright[edit]

Hello SelfPityingStan! While we appreciate your contributions to Wikipedia, there are certain things you must keep in mind about using information from sources to avoid copyright and plagiarism issues.

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It's very important that contributors understand and follow these practices, as policy requires that people who persistently do not must be blocked from editing. If you have any questions about this, please ask them here on this page, or leave a message on my talk page. Thank you. Whpq (talk) 18:11, 13 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi there

I have responded separately on WM Commons - the photos I used are from a friend's Flickr page and he is preparing a response to indicate transfer of rights so they can be used legitimately. But in the meantime, delete the images if you have to.

I reject any comments about plagiarism, though! I haven't directly used anyone's text and any quotations are clearly marked as such. SelfPityingStan (talk) 09:40, 15 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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March 2024[edit]

Hello, I'm Sumanuil. I noticed that you recently made an edit to Pink Peg Slax in which your edit summary did not appear to describe the change you made. In the future, it would be helpful to others if you described your changes to Wikipedia with an accurate edit summary. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks. - Sumanuil. _{(talk to me)} 00:11, 19 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]