User talk:Robbalvey

Please do not add commercial links (or links to your own private websites) to Wikipedia. Wikipedia is not a vehicle for advertising or a mere collection of external links. You are, however, encouraged to add content instead of links to the encyclopedia. See the welcome page to learn more. Thanks. RexNL 23:50, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

Please stop. If you continue to use Wikipedia for advertising, you will be blocked from editing. RexNL 23:51, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

Dear Wikipedia,

I had emailed RexNL regarding this exact same issue. I'm not sure if he would be able to share the emails with you as they went into quite some detail.

The gist of my question is - I run quite a comprehensive website for roller coasters and theme parks: www.themeparkreview.com and I don't understand what the criteria is for being able to post a link as many of the roller coaster and theme park related links are very similar to the content we would provide.

The site has thousands of photos, reviews, and videos and a large volume of information that could be shared and be of interest with the users coming to Wikipedia. I would not be posting a link unless we had something of value.

Also, I did want to note that, since the company I work for (Activision) does quite a bit with Wikipedia it might look as though this IP hits the site quite a bit. But since it's a shared network as many as 500 of us have access and I can tell you that we are not spamming the site.

Again, sorry for the confusion. I am actually very new to Wikipedia but I'm also trying to get a better idea of why the links would not be relevant, yet others which are of very similar nature are. If needed, I could point out some examples.

Thanks for your time,

--Robb Alvey

Welcome to Wikipedia

Welcome to Wikipedia, Robb. I have added the occasional link to TPR in the past myself, only to have them labelled as "spam" and deleted. I know that TPR is a great site, but fan sites and such are often difficult to get accepted into Wikipedia. On the other hand, if TPR gets added, Coasterbuzz and all the other sites are going to want in as well. I'd also advise you bring up the topic on the talk page of an article if the article could benefit from the link.

While you're here, check out Wikipedia:WikiProject_Roller_Coasters (someone brought it up in the forums already). In addition, I'm sure a lot of your pictures will be great on the site (although Elissa's stateline picture won't make the cut!) If you want some help, we could discuss this in the UK.

WillMcC 01:23, 30 May 2006 (UTC) (WillMontu in the forums)

Re: Robb Alvey Page

Re your message: There wasn't much on your IMDB page, but I added it back in. You should be careful about editing your own Wikipedia article to avoid conflicts of interest. -- Gogo Dodo (talk) 08:12, 8 November 2009 (UTC)

Re your message: It is amazing what one can find on Wikipedia... One thing that you could do is provide references to back up the items on your article. Nothing has a reference and they really need to have some. -- Gogo Dodo (talk) 08:20, 8 November 2009 (UTC)

Re How exactly do I do that? Robbalvey (talk) 08:23, 8 November 2009 (UTC)

Re your message: Thanks. I dropped a couple of the references because I thought they weren't very substantial. The New York Times article only mentions you in passing and the quote could really be said by anybody. What works out better are the video game interviews were you are the main focus of the interview. Using the pay-to-access references are a bit harder as one can not verify the content without paying for it and the vast majority of Wikipedia editors won't pay for it. I restructured the article a little to split out your video game work from your roller coaster things. Your notability is better established with both instead of the roller coaster as primary and video games as a secondary thing. Well, take a look and if you have any other references available, send them along or you can add them to the article. -- Gogo Dodo (talk) 06:26, 10 November 2009 (UTC)

Your recent edits

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I have just recently found out that the Robb Alvey Wiki page deletion was maliciously done and spear-headed by a group of "haters." Based on this, would it be possible to have the page re-instated? Information about this: http://www.valleymania.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=1160

Robbalvey (talk) 00:23, 22 November 2011 (UTC)

Before it was deleted, the page was borderline in terms of notability and Wikipedia's other policies, and by looking at the deletion request, the reasons behind the deletion had some legitimate reasons behind them and if it is restored as it was, it's going to be vandalized and nominated for deletion again by the same people. You can request that the page be "undeleted" at Wikipedia:Deletion review, but you may have difficulty if you request the undeletion by yourself (or by anyone close to TPR) due to Wikipedia's conflict of interest policy.

A better option is to request that the page be "userfied" (moved into a member's userspace, e.g. User:Robbalvey/Page_Title) or e-mailed to you at Wikipedia:Requests for undeletion. If it is in userspace (once again, it may be a good idea to moved to someone else's userspace - I can help), people can make improvements and critique/review the page without worrying about the risk of deletion so that at some point down the line it is of high enough quality to be restored into the main namespace. --WillMcC (talk) 01:41, 22 November 2011 (UTC)