User talk:Roachgod

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Happy editing, Isomorphic 19:46, 21 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Come join the AIW

You are currently listed as an honorary member of the Association of Inclusionist Wikipedians. We encourage you to become a full-fledged member, by listing yourself as such on the AIW page. Posiduck 04:36, 27 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Musician lists

Response on my talk page. —No-One Jones ^(m) 13:44, 16 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Yuppster

I took Yuppster's current place of employment out because it sounded (to me) like the sort of paragraph that's in a vanity page. At the very least, it was too casual -- it read like one of those bios that people write about themselves. Feel free to re-add it, but make sure the style is more encyclopedaic. — Adam Conover † 22:08, Nov 20, 2004 (UTC)

Article Licensing

Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) v1.0 and v2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the top 2000 Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:

Multi-Licensing FAQ - Lots of questions answered
Multi-Licensing Guide
Free the Rambot Articles Project

To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" template into their user page, but there are other options at Template messages/User namespace. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:

Option 1

I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:

OR

Option 2

I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions to any [[U.S. state]], county, or city article as described below:

Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" with "{{MultiLicensePD}}". If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. Please let me know what you think at my talk page. It's important to know either way so no one keeps asking. -- Ram-Man (comment| talk)

Re: Scott McCloud / Webcomic

He is revolutionary, and I love his work, but I call him pretentious because he always seems to find obscure webcomics and call them the greatest things on earth, while almost completely ignoring the most popular webcomics. He just always comes across like those film critics who obviously know their stuff and have a great eye for cinema, but won't ever review anything released by a hollywood studio.

It's POV and I can't source it, but I still stand by it.

- Lifefeed 15:38, Dec 15, 2004 (UTC)

VfD help

Please, help at VfD of Ivan Cherevko. -- Mykola Petrenko 09:46, 17 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Drum and bass articles

Hi there, I just noticed that you created the article on DJ Hype, which is unusual in terms of dnb articles in that's it's detailed and well-written. I'm trying to get some users together to clean up drum and bass articles, so if you'd be interested, have a look at my user page. I'm going to start a Wikiproject next week, but the list is on my page until i can work out how to make a template to stick on the articles. I'm quite new to this business. Thanks illWill 00:32, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Utilitarianism

Hello. I found your profile on WikiProject Philosophy. I'm looking for more perspectives to help resolve a debate in the Utilitarianism article on the difference between "Happiness" and the "Good". If you have any comments on the subject, please feel free to share them on the article's talk page. Thanks! --Malathion 8 July 2005 04:36 (UTC)

Comics Collaboration of the Fortnight

As a member of WikiProject Comics, I thought you might be interested in the Comics Collaboration of the Fortnight we have set up. Please feel free to vote on the articles listed, although bear in mind that a vote for a particular article means you are pledging to help improve the article. The goal of the collaboration is to improve articles to Featured Article status, as we feel Comics is under-represented in that area. Thanks for your help. Steve block talk 15:59, 18 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Proposal on Notability

Because you're a member of the Association of Inclusionist Wikipedians, I'm notifying you that the inclusionist proposa Wikipedia:Non-notabilityl is in progress to define the role of notability in articles. Please help us make this successful! Also note the proposal Wikipedia:Importance is a deletionist proposla that seeks to officially introduce notabiltiy for the first time. Make sure this is defeated! --Ephilei 04:33, 4 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Alpha & Omega (band)

I've added the "{{prod}}" template to the article Alpha & Omega (band), suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process. All contributions are appreciated, but I don't believe it satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and I've explained why in the deletion notice (see also "What Wikipedia is not" and Wikipedia's deletion policy). Please either work to improve the article if the topic is worthy of inclusion in Wikipedia, or, if you disagree with the notice, discuss the issues at Talk:Alpha & Omega (band). You may remove the deletion notice, and the article will not be deleted, but note that it may still be sent to Articles for Deletion, where it may be deleted if consensus to delete is reached, or if it matches any of the speedy deletion criteria. ShadowHalo 03:38, 18 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

March 2007

Welcome to Wikipedia and thank you for your contributions. Unfortunately, an article you recently created, Blame (artist), may not conform to some of Wikipedia's guidelines for new articles, so it will shortly be removed (if it hasn't been already). Please use the sandbox for any tests you may want to do and please read our introduction page to learn more about contributing. Thank you. -- Cielomobile ^{talk / contribs} 01:13, 22 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I'm sorry that I upset you, ZaQ. It was just a template that my editing tool automatically pasted onto your page after I posted a speedy deletion template on the article; I didn't personally write the message. As for the article, as you know, I posted the message over a year ago. I have absolutely no recollection of the case, but I would venture that the article was about a non-notable artist (and was not necessarily a "new" article, although the template apparently contained that word). I didn't delete it myself, though, so you might take it up with User:Sn0wflake if you want to recreate it. Best, -- Cielomobile ^{talk / contribs} 02:14, 21 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I'd take it up with the admin who deleted it, User:Sn0wflake. Only admins have access to the deleted content, and only admins can restore it. -- Cielomobile ^{talk / contribs} 20:51, 22 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Disambiguation of link

I'm in the process of disambiguating all dark side links. However I'm not sure which is the correct target for the darkside link in the Total Science article you created. Please advise. Ferengi 08:19, 5 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

DYK nomination of ZumoDrive

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DYK for ZumoDrive

On December 5, 2009, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article ZumoDrive, which you created or substantially expanded. You are welcome to check how many hits your article got while on the front page _{(here's how)} and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Materialscientist (talk) 17:57, 5 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

AfD nomination of DJ Die

An editor has nominated one or more articles which you have created or worked on, for deletion. The nominated article is DJ Die. We appreciate your contributions, but the nominator doesn't believe that the article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion and has explained why in his/her nomination (see also Wikipedia:Notability and "What Wikipedia is not").

Your opinions on whether the article meets inclusion criteria and what should be done with the article are welcome; please participate in the discussion(s) by adding your comments to Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/DJ Die. Please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~).

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Please note: This is an automatic notification by a bot. I have nothing to do with this article or the deletion nomination, and can't do anything about it. --Erwin85Bot (talk) 09:23, 18 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Unreferenced BLPs

Hello Roachgod! Thank you for your contributions. I am a bot alerting you that 1 of the articles that you created is tagged as an Unreferenced Biography of a Living Person. The biographies of living persons policy requires that all personal or potentially controversial information be sourced. In addition, to ensure verifiability, all biographies should be based on reliable sources. If you were to bring this article up to standards, it would greatly help us with the current 715 article backlog. Once the article is adequately referenced, please remove the {{unreferencedBLP}} tag. Here is the article:

Decoder (artist) - Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL

Thanks!--DASHBot (talk) 06:17, 25 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination of Discogs for deletion

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File permission problem with File:Fritz (comic).jpg

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Nomination of Future Cut for deletion

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Speedy deletion nomination of Bad Company (drum and bass group)

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A tag has been placed on Bad Company (drum and bass group) requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about a band or musician, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is important or significant: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such articles may be deleted at any time. Please read more about what is generally accepted as notable.

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Proposed deletion of Moving Shadow

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Speedy deletion nomination of Aphrodite (musician)

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A tag has been placed on Aphrodite (musician) requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about a band or musician, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is important or significant: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such articles may be deleted at any time. Please read more about what is generally accepted as notable.

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Speedy deletion nomination of Pascal (musician)

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A tag has been placed on Pascal (musician) requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about a band or musician, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is important or significant: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such articles may be deleted at any time. Please read more about what is generally accepted as notable.

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