User talk:Surfer-boy94/Archive 1

3439:, 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 (Knowledge (XXG): and Knowledge (XXG) 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 1370:, 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! 3482:). 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, 2593:. 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. 1565:

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,

1550:, "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. - 4194: 3799: 2268: 3739: 3280: 3219: 2159: 2098: 1985: 1924: 1863: 1802: 939: 809: 753: 3613: 651: 3990: 3943: 2467: 2337: 1487: 1151: 1645:. 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. 4044: 257: 2045: 1526: 1272: 1186: 1044: 463:. Unfortunately, it doesn't conform to some of Knowledge (XXG)'s guidelines for new articles, and has, as a result, been marked for deletion. However, please do not be disheartened by what may or may not happen to your first article, if indeed it is deleted - please continue to edit Knowledge (XXG) and add articles which conform with the inclusion criteria. For help, see 1313: 1220: 3691: 1445: 1119: 1084: 896: 865: 414: 76: 3504:

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

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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

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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.

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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

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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

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If your goal is to someday be an admin, definitely become involved in different areas of Knowledge (XXG). 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

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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

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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

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from Knowledge (XXG). This has been done because the article appears to be about a person, group of people, band, club, company, 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

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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

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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

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This is an automated message- you have not upset or annoyed anyone, and you do not need to respond. In the future, you may save yourself some confusion if you supply a meaningful file name and refer to 'my contributions' to remind yourself exactly which name you chose (file names are

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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:

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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.

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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.

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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,

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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

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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,

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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

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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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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

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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

2756:- 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. 1689:. If you can indicate how Open Your Eyes (Victoria Beckham album) is different from the previously posted material, or if you can indicate why this article should not be deleted, I advise you to place the template 1655:

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.

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4005: 475:. Thanks, and if you have any questions, please ask them on my user talk page. To do this, click on my name (just after this sentence) and click discussion at the top and then the (+) button at the top. 3434:

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

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Knowledge (XXG) does not publish rumours - pleaase do not add them to articles or indeed create article using rumour as a basis, such articles are quickly deleted and are a waste of time for us all. --

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saying why this article should stay. An admin should check for such edits before deleting the article. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. Please read our

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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.

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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.

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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").

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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?

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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. --

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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

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