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==Dogwood==
Please hold off changing every link from Dogwood to Dogwood (plant), they'll all have to be reverted as soon as this silly disambig page for nothing is reverted. Thanks - User:MPF 16:43, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)
:Basically this form of promotion is spam vandalism. All the dogwood entries have been patiently reverted by adults. --User:Wetman 17:18, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)
::It's not "promotion", my intent was not vandalism, and attacks against my age are childish. Dogwood (the band) should be included in Wikipedia, as they are a very influential Christian punk band. It seemed to me that the best way to add the band would be by adding a stub band page, adding a disambig page, fixing the link to the plant, and then fleshing out the band page. I apologize if I was wrong in these steps, but there's no need to be rude.
:::Sorry if I was a bit rude. The usual way to add something like this where one meaning is markedly more significant than the other is to add a note at the top of the page to a disambiguation page; take a look at Apple, where there's a link to Apple (disambiguation) which then leads you to a set of links to the computers and so on - User:MPF 17:48, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)
== Bad first experience ==
Hi, I hope you don't mind me editing your User page to vouch for your ''bona fides''; if you do then I'm sure you'll clean it up. Sorry you had a bad experience with User:Wetman. He is in clear violation of Wikipedia:Please do not bite the newcomers, although I suppose that's not a binding standard? At any rate, I've only been here a couple of weeks so I guess it's not my place to point it out directly (although I have no qualms about anyone seeing it on this public user_talk page).
At any rate, welcome to Wikipedia, thanks for the work you've already done on improving Christian music stuff, and let me know if I can do anything to help you. (Also, Christian punk could really use help -- I've been trying singlehandedly, but it still has huge holes.)
Take care, User:PhilipR 20:56, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)
== Christian rock cat ==
Thanks for adding all the stuff to the C-rock category. I monitor it every few days and was surprised to find that it had roughly doubled in size over the last week. Great to have you on board. On a side note, I really don't think Dogwood is really that influential-they aren't that well known even on the CCM circuit (I can only name one song of theirs offhand).User:Kertrats 15:56, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)
== Date wikification. ==
Jpers36,
Thank you for your recent edits on Mae and related topics.
I just wanted to let you know that typically dates are wikified like so:
February 26, 2004.
This is because if the entire date is wikified, a broken link is created (by default, all red links are broken). Wikifying dates as shown above will create two working (blue) links, one for the month and date, and one for the year.
If you have any other questions, please let me know.
Sincerely, Short_Verses">User:Short VersesUser talk:Short Verses 00:37, Jun 19, 2005 (UTC)
Jpers36
This is a spam vandal working for a band named Dogwood. All references to dogwood were changed to Dogwood (plant) in order to accomodate a band in San Diego at "Dogwood" --User:Wetman 16:40, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)
:It's not "promotion", my intent was not vandalism, and attacks against my age are childish. Dogwood (the band) should be included in Wikipedia, as they are a very influential Christian punk band. It seemed to me that the best way to add the band would be by adding a stub band page, adding a disambig page, fixing the link to the plant, and then fleshing out the band page. I apologize if I was wrong in these steps, but there's no need to be rude. User:Jpers36 17:32, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)
::I can vouch for this user's apparent good faith (based on past edits to The Crucified and I believe Christian punk) as well as for the band Dogwood being at least moderately popular in "Christian alternative" circles. I do think, however, that Dogwood (plant) is substantially more likely to be sought, and therefore the article Dogwood should be about the plant with a standard disambiguation message at the top. That seems to be how it is now.
::BTW, Jpers36, thanks for your edits to the Christian-underground-music related stuff on here. -- Cheers, User:PhilipR 19:42, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)