Melvin100

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My name is Melvin100, I live in a town close to Chicago, IL. In the past few days I had a close friend of mine (Jeff Gresenz) pass away. Jeff was a musician. Jeff was in a band with me that never got started or went anywhere. Jeff Gresenz was in a band called Electric Airlines in Chicago which unfortunately had little success as well. My relationship with Jeff Gresenz and our band was cut short due to a silly story about my cat urinating on his expensive bass guitar amplifier, which caused our band to break-up. Over the past few years we did talk again. I was informed of his death a few days ago, and was completely heart broken over the news. Bands are very difficult. The most interesting story about Jeff Gresenz and his career was the fact that he at least moved to Chicago to attempt his stab at his 15 minutes of fame. I wrote an article about this and attempted to place it on Wikipedia. As the story goes, Urge Overkill were a very popular band in the 1990's and were most likely world famous after they were included on the Pulp Fiction soundtrack and appearance in the movie King Pin. After this band's break up in 1997, they attempted to reform as a new band called Electric Airlines. My article is brief and had references from Chicago Tribune. I am not really good with computer navigation. I was hoping to at least place this guy in music history because he was an incredible musician, and had a HUGE heart. I am asking that you help me do this by either explaining to me what I have done incorrectly with my article, or simply explain to me how to add his name to Urge Overkill page that already exists in Wikipedia, of course the drummer of Electric Airlines (Ryan Stewart) could be added as well. Forgive me for bothering you, but your name popped up when the article was deleted. All I am trying to do is place my friend's name in music history because I feel he deserves this. — Melvin100 (talk · contribs) via e-mail

• I just had to let the world see the story about the cat urinating on the guitar amplifier. You saw Tikiwont's comment at Wikipedia:Requests for undeletion#Electric Airlines: beef up your draft - one basic thing is to provide links to significant coverage in reliable, independent secondary sources. You quoted the Chicago Tribune but you were too slovenly to provide a proper link to it. When you think your draft is ready, don't bother to ask me, just submit to AfC. By all means add Jeff's name to the Urge Overkill article - making sure to add an appropriate external link to support it. You do it by editing the article in the same way that you have been editing your sandbox. — RHaworth (talk · contribs) 21:51, 21 March 2012 (UTC)