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Speedy deletion nomination of Sherman Smith (Singer)
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The article Sherman Smith (Singer) has been proposed for deletion because it appears to have no references. Under Wikipedia policy, this biography of a living person will be deleted after seven days unless it has at least one reference to a reliable source that directly supports material in the article.
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KDS4444 (talk) 23:52, 7 March 2017 (UTC)
@KDS4444: Message text. Can you check if the page is good?
March 2017
editWelcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, your addition of one or more external links to the page Sherman Smith (Singer) has been reverted.
Your edit here to Sherman Smith (Singer) 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=jHG6_TmvU64) 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.
If you were trying to insert an external link that does comply with our policies and guidelines, then please accept my creator's apologies and feel free to undo the bot's revert. However, if the link does not comply with our policies and guidelines, but your edit included other, constructive, changes to the article, feel free to make those changes again without re-adding the link. Please read Wikipedia's external links guideline for more information, and consult my list of frequently-reverted sites. For more information about me, see my FAQ page. Thanks! --XLinkBot (talk) 00:05, 8 March 2017 (UTC)
Nomination of Sherman Smith (Singer) for deletion
editA discussion is taking place as to whether the article Sherman Smith (Singer) is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.
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Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. KDS4444 (talk) 05:40, 8 March 2017 (UTC)
References
editNew reference is added <ref>{{cite web|title=mr-ay records guitar new track called slow/|url=http://www.mrraybass.com/uncategorized/mr-ray-records-guitar-new-track-called-slow/||publisher=Riendy Holder|accessdate=8 March 2017}}</ref>
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Your edit here to Sherman Smith (Singer) 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.facebook.com/iamshermansmith/) is/are on my list of links to remove and probably shouldn't be included in Wikipedia.
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May 2017
edit Your addition to Sherman Smith (singer) has been removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without evidence of permission from the copyright holder. If you are the copyright holder, please read Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials for more information on uploading your material to Wikipedia. For legal reasons, Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted material, including text or images from print publications or from other websites, without an appropriate and verifiable license. All such contributions will be deleted. You may use external websites or publications as a source of information, but not as a source of content, such as sentences or images—you must write using your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. Dlohcierekim (talk) 09:11, 19 May 2017 (UTC)
@Dlohcierekim: the website www.iamshermansmith.com tells that the copyright is free for use .
- Thanks. I have reversed the deletion and reverted to your lst version. Be careful though-- you are straying back into promotional content.Dlohcierekim (talk) 09:55, 19 May 2017 (UTC)
Sherman Smith (singer) continued concerns
editThe greatest concern is the subject does not meet the relevant guidelines WP:Music and the general notability guideline. If you have verifiable information from reliable third party sources, with a reputation for fact checking and independent/unconnected with the subject it needs to be in the article. Such coverage needs to be substantial. The coverage as it sits now is not.
The second is the promotional nature of some of the content. Content from the subject's webpage is designed to evoke a response from the reader. It is inherently promotional. The more of it there is, the greater the case for deleting the article as unambiguous advertising. It actually weakens the argument for keeping the article. If you write advertising or webpages for a living, it may be very hard to adopt the neutral, drab, facts-only style of encyclopedia writing. Hope this helps.Dlohcierekim (talk) 14:35, 19 May 2017 (UTC)