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Celtibillies: Come Dance & Sing

Really, I could slap a speedy deletion tag on this (as an article about a recording by a band who do not have an article & which fails to ay why the recording is notable. However, today I am feeling full of the milk of human kindness, & am not doing so. (the music sounds interesting)... what I suggest you do is write an article on the band. Provided, of course, that you can come up with some decent independent sources to establish notability... see WP:BAND. Im afraid to say that my quick search didn't come up with owt that cut the mustard.TheLongTone (talk) 13:41, 12 February 2018 (UTC)

Celtibillies: Come Dance & Sing

My students and I are both new to Wikipedia submissions (this year), so your response gives me something to show them as representative of what they may expect from the Wikipedia community. I do disagree that the recording is not notable. I did not go into detail since I didn't want to quote the CD insert, but the music demonstrates how the two genres (Appalachian and Celtic) intertwine, which I did indicate on the brief entry. This entry was used as an example (using screenshots) for a presentation of how to start a new page. I will add more to this (and to a group page for them) when I am not pressed for time. They are on YouTube (I have their CDs)--you might enjoy them. I hope I am signing this correctly; as I said, I am new at this. VUprof (talk) 15:20, 12 February 2018 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Celtibillies: Come Dance & Sing

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A tag has been placed on Celtibillies: Come Dance & Sing requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A9 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about a musical recording which does not indicate why its subject is important or significant, and where the artist's article does not exist or is eligible for deletion itself. 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 music.

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February 2018

Thank you for your contributions. It seems that you may have added public domain content to one or more Wikipedia articles, such as Calamis (5th century BC). You are welcome to import appropriate public domain content to articles, but in order to meet the Wikipedia guideline on plagiarism, such content must be fully attributed. This requires not only acknowledging the source, but acknowledging that the source is copied. There are several methods to do this described at Wikipedia:Plagiarism#Public-domain sources, including the usage of an attribution template. Please make sure that any public domain content you have already imported is fully attributed. Thank you. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 20:12, 12 February 2018 (UTC)

February 2018: Calamis

I added minimal information to the Calamis entry, but I did not copy anything, carefully paraphrasing from the source I cited (Bullfinch's Mythology. I cited the material I added--as for the rest of the entry, it apparently contains no citations, and I am not responsible for the rest of the information.