Maccabeat

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Speedy deletion nomination of Mike Tompkins (singer)

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A tag has been placed on Mike Tompkins (singer) 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 person or group of people, 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 see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable.

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Shalom

Hey there -- I'd refrain from posting any edits to The Maccabeats, as it certainly appears to be a conflict of interest, seeing how your user name is identical to the group's name -- kol tuv!. DRosenbach ^{(Talk | Contribs)} 02:46, 5 December 2010 (UTC)

That's not the point -- for a little known band that suddenly thinks it deserve a Wikipedia article, it looks mighty fishy that the article is written by someone named User:Maccabeat. If Justin Bieber had only one good song and that's what made him famous despite his having been singing for 3 years already, and you check out his article and it's peppered with edits made by User:JustinBieber, that doesn't look too good. DRosenbach ^{(Talk | Contribs)} 15:05, 5 December 2010 (UTC)

Username problem

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. I noticed that your username (Maccabeat) may not meet Wikipedia's username policy because it is almost identical to the name of a singing group. If you believe that your username does not violate our policy, please leave a note here explaining why. As an alternative, you may file for a change of username, or you may simply create a new account and use that for editing. Thank you. --Bbb23 (talk) 17:08, 8 December 2010 (UTC)

User seems to be a fan of the group. Don't think there's a problem with the username.--Elen of the Roads (talk) 21:43, 31 December 2010 (UTC)

My reading of the policy is that it doesn't matter whether there the editor is a member of the group. All that matters is the username itself. "Unambiguous use of a name or URL of a company, group or product as a username is not permitted. A username that is the name of a company or group implies the intent to promote this group. Accordingly, such usernames may be indefinitely blocked." I know you're an admin, though, so am I missing something, either in my interpretation or in practice? In any event, I haven't asked for a block, though, because the user hasn't edited Wikipedia since December 5, and I believe the policy says there has to be recent activity to impose the block.--Bbb23 (talk) 22:39, 31 December 2010 (UTC)