Jonny-Oxo

Speedy deletion of Mark Biddiss

A tag has been placed on Mark Biddiss 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 see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable, as well as our subject-specific notability guideline for musical topics.

If you think that this notice was placed here in error, you may contest the deletion by adding {{hangon}} to the top of the page that has been nominated for deletion (just below the existing speedy deletion or "db" tag), coupled with adding a note on the talk page explaining your position, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the article meets the criterion it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would would render it more in conformance with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Lastly, please note that if the article does get deleted, you can contact one of these admins to request that a copy be emailed to you. -- Mentisock 16:02, 19 November 2008 (UTC)

Are you Mark Bidiss?

If you have a close connection to some of the people, places or things you have written about in the article Peter Cook, you may have a conflict of interest. In keeping with Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy, edits where there is a conflict of interest, or where such a conflict might reasonably be inferred from the tone of the edit and the proximity of the editor to the subject, are strongly discouraged. If you have a conflict of interest, you should avoid or exercise great caution when:

1. editing or creating articles related to you, your organization, or its competitors, as well as projects and products they are involved with;
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3. linking to the Wikipedia article or website of your organization in other articles (see Wikipedia:Spam); and,
4. avoid breaching relevant policies and guidelines, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, verifiability of information, and autobiographies.

For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have conflict of interest, please see our frequently asked questions for businesses. For more details about what, exactly, constitutes a conflict of interest, please see our conflict of interest guidelines. Thank you. --McGeddon (talk) 16:11, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

Whether you're Mark Bidiss or not, please stop plugging him as a "songwriter" in his passing mention in the Peter Cook article. The emphasis should be on Cook and the plaque, not the person behind the campaign (who arguably needn't be mentioned at all). --McGeddon (talk) 15:33, 27 November 2008 (UTC)

Notability of Mark Biddiss

A tag has been placed on Mark Biddiss requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done because the article, which appears to be about a real person, organization (band, club, company, etc.), or web content, does not indicate how or why the subject is notable: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, articles that do not indicate the subject's importance or significance may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable. If this is the first page that you have created, then you should read the guide to writing your first article.

If you think that you can assert the notability of the subject, you may contest the deletion by adding {{hangon}} to the top of the article (just below the existing speedy deletion or "db" tag), coupled with adding a note on the article's talk page explaining your position, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the article meets the criterion it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would confirm the subject's notability under Wikipedia guidelines.

For guidelines on specific types of articles, you may want to check out our criteria for biographies, for web sites, for bands, or for companies. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. McGeddon (talk) 20:32, 7 December 2008 (UTC)

Speedy deletion of Mark Biddiss

Please refrain from introducing inappropriate pages such as Mark Biddiss, to Wikipedia. Doing so is not in accordance with our policies. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox.

If you think that this notice was placed here in error, you may contest the deletion by adding {{hangon}} to the top of the page that has been nominated for deletion (just below the existing speedy deletion or "db" tag), coupled with adding a note on the talk page explaining your position, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the article meets the criterion it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would would render it more in conformance with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Lastly, please note that if the article does get deleted, you can contact one of these admins to request that a copy be emailed to you. Cssiitcic (talk) 14:08, 8 December 2008 (UTC)

December 2008

Please stop removing speedy deletion notices from pages that you have created yourself, as you did with Mark Biddiss. If you continue, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. Do not replace the speedy deletion templates with the hangon template. Put the hangon template below it. Cssiitcic (talk) 14:10, 8 December 2008 (UTC)

Mark Biddiss

I am going to delete the article Mark Biddiss again because it does not meet the inclusion guidelines at this time. That doesn't mean that later, when there is more information written on him as a person, that the article can't be recreated. For right now, though, there doesn't appear to be enough. The sources that you listed in the previously deleted version might very well be good enough to write an article on this particular song, but they don't talk enough about Biddiss to make them good sources for an article about him. My advice: wait a few months, and after his band actually releases an album, see if there are enough sources to create a full article about him. Do not recreate the article as it is now, however. If you have questions, please ask me. Wikipedia has lots of rules that can be hard to figure out, but once you get the hang of it you'll hopefully have a lot of fun. Karanacs (talk) 20:31, 8 December 2008 (UTC)

Here's the list of sources you had used, in case you don't still have those. Karanacs (talk) 20:32, 8 December 2008 (UTC)

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Cook
• http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/Record-Breaking-Mobile-Phone-Song/Article/20070411259536?lpos=Home_2&lid=ARTICLE_1259536_Record-Breaking%2BMobile%2BPhone%2BSong
• http://www.iran-bulletin.org/News%20Break%20-%20Arrest%20The%20Presidents.htm
• http://strangeglue.com/strength-through-unity-unity-through-mobiles
• http://www.cmumusicnetwork.co.uk/daily/070503.html
• http://www.creativematch.co.uk/viewnews/?93785

copied from my talk pageMy advice would be to first read WP:BAND and make sure that Biddiss meets the inclusion criteria right now. Otherwise, the article will only be deleted again. Usually, aspiring musicians, even those with an album due to come out in the next few months, do not meet the inclusion criteria. The sources you had used did not establish that the subject met the inclusion criteria at this time. If you want to start a draft of an article, you can do so in your userspace. For example, create User:Jonny-Oxo\sandbox and begin writing there. When you have the article ready (and when the source show that Biddiss meets the inclusion criteria), then you can move it into the article mainspae. For now, though, since the article you had did not meet inclusion criteria, I am not going to restore it. 15:38, 9 December 2008 (UTC)