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May 2016

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, your addition of one or more external links to the page Paul Kaye has been reverted.
Your edit here to Paul Kaye was reverted by an automated bot that attempts to remove links which are discouraged per our external links guideline. The external link(s) you added or changed (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_3NpGVJB_o) is/are on my list of links to remove and probably shouldn't be included in Wikipedia. If the external link you inserted or changed was to a media file (e.g. a sound or video file) on an external server, then note that linking to such files may be subject to Wikipedia's copyright policy, as well as other parts of our external links guideline. If the information you linked to is indeed in violation of copyright, then such information should not be linked to. Please consider using our upload facility to upload a suitable media file, or consider linking to the original.
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Deletions

Hi Sarcastathon. I'm all for removing bad content but I do think that you are going a bit too far too fast and may be removing some good material as well as bad. Please don't worry. I'm not here to give you a formal warning or anything like that, just a bit of advice. If you see a whole paragraph of referenced content and think that it is irrelevant then please stop to ask yourself whether maybe there is a relevance there that you are missing. If you are in any doubt then it is normally best to ask on the article's Talk page. DanielRigal (talk) 20:19, 25 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the heads up! I’m definitely more used to removing PR puff on fashion articles so I’ll try and go a bit slower in future! Sarcastathon (talk) 20:29, 25 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Sweet6970 (talk) 10:34, 26 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion contested: Rory Phillips (DJ)

Hello Sarcastathon. I am just letting you know that I contested the speedy deletion of Rory Phillips (DJ), a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: The article makes a credible assertion of importance or significance, sufficient to pass A7. Thank you. BangJan1999 22:36, 26 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I’m surprised: I looked at [1] and it doesn’t meet the criteria.

1. Out of 4 references, 2 are links to artist’s own pages. 2 are PR pieces.

2. They have never had any single or album chart in their home country or abroad.

3. Nor have they had a record certified as gold.

4. They’ve never ‘had important coverage in a reliable source of an international concert tour, or a national concert tour in at least one sovereign country’

5. Not released any albums.

6. Hasn’t been a member of 2 or more notable groups.

7. Hasn’t become one of the most important representatives of a notable style or the most important of the local scene of a city

8 & 9. Hasn’t won any awards

10. Not made music for any notable other media

11. Hasn’t been placed in rotation nationally by any major radio network

12. Nor have they been subject of any documentaries etc

If this doesn’t classify for speedy deletion, what way is better to get the page deleted? Sarcastathon (talk) 13:25, 27 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]