Smithers45

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Re: Spill.com

Re your message: As I told Davidbray2 (talk · contribs): "I started the discussion to delete the article, but did not close the discussion or delete the article. The closure and deletion was done by Cirt (talk · contribs). The awarding of a 2009 Podcast Award would qualify Spill.com per the notability guidelines." I have no objections to recreating the article because now the site meets the notability guidelines, but back then it was determined by the community that it does not. As for your claim that you are not associated with the previous group, well... if you say so, but your edits show that you have knowledge of the situation and access to a copy of the previous article since your new article uses much of the same wording. -- Gogo Dodo (talk) 16:53, 18 December 2009 (UTC)

Note: As to why the edit filter was not letting you create the page, it was because you wrote “F--K YOU!!!” in all capitals (not spelling it out because you might then not be able to edit this line either.) If it were lowercase it would have been okay. A silly rule it may seem, but it stops a lot more vandalism than you might think. -- Soap ^Talk/_{Contributions} 17:36, 18 December 2009 (UTC)

Re your message: Wikibin is an archive of deleted articles from Wikipedia. Page views does not infer notability. What makes the site now notable is the award. The other references are rather weak as only the March 21, 2008 article is about Spill.com. The July 14, 2000 article is about their previous venture. -- Gogo Dodo (talk) 20:43, 18 December 2009 (UTC)

Re your message: The additional references help a lot. Nice work on cleaning up the article. -- Gogo Dodo (talk) 05:58, 20 December 2009 (UTC)

Re: Spill.com 2

Hey. Great job reviving the Spill.com page. I'm actually the guy who created (and had to keep re-creating) the old one. Having it deleted over and over again was such a pain wasn't it? And after seeing the improvements you made, I have to say, it now looks and reads better than ever.

Great job!

Teknolyze (talk) 22:34, 18 December 2009 (UTC)

December 2009

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, your addition of one or more external links to the page Spill.com has been reverted.
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