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AfD Nomination: The Vapour Boys

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia! We welcome and appreciate your contributions, but all Wikipedia articles must meet our criteria for inclusion (see What Wikipedia is not and Deletion policy). Since it does not seem that The Vapour Boys meets these criteria, an editor has started a discussion about whether this article should be kept or deleted.

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Speedy deletion nomination of Buchanan (band)

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A tag has been placed on Buchanan (band), requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article seems to be unambiguous advertising that only promotes a company, product, group, service or person and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become an encyclopedia article. Please read the general criteria for speedy deletion, particularly item G11, as well as the guidelines on spam.

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FYI conflict of interest guideline

• see also: Wikipedia is not a soapbox and Wikipedia:User pages#What may I not have in my user pages?

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Quick Comment

I wanted to give a quick reply to your now-deleted reply.

I was not trying to humiliate you or your band with my comments, so I certainly hope you don't feel I was trying to insult you (I wasn't). But as a matter of note, your prior messages unfortunately will have a permanent record; in fact, I am finding it here. Pretty much any contribution to Wikipedia has a permanent record in the page's history. So it's impossible to delete the record, but I do note that you've effectively ended the discussion and will not carry it on further. I do wish your band well and hope we do hear good things about it someday over here in North America. =) CycloneGU (talk) 04:42, 16 March 2011 (UTC)

Thanks mate - definitely won't make the same mistake again! Will leave to management in the future I think!

Well, even management has a COI - they promote the group, so they of course want you to sell records and the COI could be inferred by that fact. It really should be an independent person who creates the page. Let me give you an example.

I have watched our hometown hockey team, the Sarnia Sting, for the entire season. They aren't making the playoffs (final game is 2morrow), but I noticed that Nail Yakupov didn't have an article. Furthermore, he had a red link (a Wikilink with no article behind it) on three pages. I created his article. If he himself had created it, or anyone on Sting management, or even another player on the team or management at the arena they play at, those could all be COIs. I myself am simply a huge fan of the player (who is setting OHL records already and is certain to be Rookie of the Year) and therefore there is no COI. Further, he's notable having played for various special teams and for being Rookie of the Week several times already, not to mention the recent records. But even so, if someone else from the team created his article and it was found (would be difficult, mind), it would have been deleted even if it looked similar to what I have posted simply because of the COI. So thus, don't ask management to take over the task; there is still a COI.

On that note, anything on which you don't have a possible (or direct) COI you are welcome to edit and we look forward to your contributions. We only ask to stay away from articles about yourself in a sense. =) CycloneGU (talk) 13:46, 16 March 2011 (UTC)

As a side note, after posting this I found the article undeleted for reasons explained here. It is also evident that another editor made the point that deletion from his talk page is that users' decision. Definitely teaches the random user not to be slanderous or mean in their posts (not saying you were, just in general) because people will see literally everything you post. =) Article may still be deleted in the future however for other reasons, including COI. CycloneGU (talk) 13:52, 16 March 2011 (UTC)

File permission problem with File:Buchananband.jpg

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File permission problem with File:Buchananband.jpg

Thanks for uploading File:Buchananband.jpg, which you've sourced to "Photograph created by Dyllan Corbett on behalf of Buchanan". I noticed that while you provided a valid copyright licensing tag, there is no proof that the creator of the file agreed to license it under the given license.

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• make a note permitting reuse under the CC-BY-SA or another acceptable free license (see this list) at the site of the original publication; or
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