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Salutations. I am fezmar9. It's a word I made up followed by a number that means nothing to me.

My first contribution (after setting up an account) was creating a page for a band in August 2007. The page was deleted shortly after that on the grounds that the band failed he notability guidelines (one user that assisted in its deletion accused me of trying to get laid by advertising "my band" on wikipedia). So I read up on the general notability guideline, and continued editing. Every time I ran into a problem such as this, I figured out why what I did was wrong, learned from my mistakes and carried on.

I edit using Google Chrome, which causes certain table features and templates to display funny. If I have performed an edit that made something technical look worse on a different browser, please let me know!

• Read Policies & Guidelines – Wikipedia has no tutorial or training (though, it should). Instead, you're expected to stay current on a seemingly endless list of policies and guidelines that are regularly updated. I recommend starting with Wikipedia:Five pillars, and since you likely came across my page from an edit to an album article, I recommend Wikipedia:WikiProject Albums/Sources and Wikipedia:WikiProject Albums/Album article style advice.

• Don't Copy + Paste from Other Articles – You may accidentally spread an error or outdated idea across Wikipedia. For example, the album infobox has been updated many times over the last decade, and some articles may feature outdated fields or practices. Instead of copying an infobox from an article that might not be using it correctly, always copy and paste the template from Template:Infobox album to ensure you're using the correct one.

• Read the Article Before You Edit – I actually see this fairly regularly, someone will add a sentence or paragraph to an article that is already there. Sometimes it's literally the sentence right before. Make sure you understand what the article already says before adding something new.

• "Show Preview" & "Show Changes" Buttons are Your Friends – Instead of making an edit, noticing a mistake, making an edit, noticing a mistake, making an edit... use the "Show Preview" button to make sure it looks correct the first time. It's also really easy to accidentally and unknowingly delete a word or bump the keyboard and type "asdfs" somewhere. Use the "Show Changes" button to make sure you didn't do this.

• Unplug, Spend Some Money – The internet is vast, but it is not limitless. Some of the best information you can source for a Wikipedia page lies in journals, books, magazines, etc. To write a really in-depth page here will require some offline research and maybe spending a bit of money. If you're truly committed, it's worth it. My work rewriting Botch (band) would not have been possible without ordering a handful of back-issue magazines and getting my hands on the physical liner notes.

• All Great Writers Were Once Terrible Writers – You're not going to be good until you attempt to write your first article. It won't be great, but you'll learn from your mistakes and apply your newfound wisdom to the next article.

• Don't Be Toxic – In my past 13+ years of contributing, I've noticed the social state of both Wikipedia and the internet in general become increasingly toxic. Treat your fellow Wikipedians with respect, we're all in this together.

		The Working Man's Barnstar
		I noticed your complete reformat of the Simple Plan discography article. I checked out your userpage, and realized that you've done the same from tens of other articles. For your tireless efforts in reformatting discography articles, I award you the Working Man's barnstar. -- Poe Joe (Talk) 01:14, 18 August 2008 (UTC)

		The WikiProject Albums Barnstar
		I hereby award you this barnstar for your great work on the expanson of the article content guidelines for the WP:ALBUM project, including the extraction from the main project page into a separate subpage. – IbLeo(talk) 21:20, 13 January 2011 (UTC)

	Metalpunk Barnstar
	I award you this barnstar for your hard work improving several not-so-metal-related articles. Keep up the good work! Malconfort (talk) 13:48, 1 July 2011 (UTC)

	The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
	For your work on Kristin Hayter; What a well written article! 💵Money💵emoji💵💸 17:18, 27 July 2019 (UTC)

• WikiProject Albums (infobox, ratings template, assessment, notability, track listing template, record charts, hammer time, genre warriors)

{{subst:Infobox album
| name       = 
| type       = 
| artist     = 
| cover      = 
| alt        = 
| released   = <!-- {{Start date|||}} -->
| recorded   = 
| venue      = 
| studio     = 
| genre      = <!-- Do not add unsourced genres -->
| length     = 
| label      = 
| producer   = 
| prev_title = 
| prev_year  = 
| next_title = 
| next_year  = 
}}

• WikiProject Musicians (infobox, navbox, MUSTARD, notability)

{{Infobox musical artist
| name            = 
| image           = 
| alt             = 
| caption         = 
| image_size      = 
| landscape       = <!-- yes, if wide image, otherwise leave blank -->
| background      = **Mandatory** Use one: group_or_band, classical_ensemble, or temporary
| alias           = 
| origin          = 
| genre           = 
| years_active    = <!-- {{start date|YYYY}}–{{end date|YYYY}} (or –present) -->
| label           = 
| associated_acts = 
| website         = <!-- {{URL|example.com}} -->
| current_members = 
| past_members    = 
}}

• Wikipedia:Citing sources (templates, cite web, album notes)

<ref name="">{{cite web
| last = 
| first = 
| title = 
| work = 
| publisher = 
| date = 
| url = 
| accessdate = December 2, 2022
}}</ref>

• Vandalism (list of warning templates, protection request)

{{subst:uw-vandalism1}} ~~~~

• Deletion (proposed deletion, speedy deletion, merging, redirect)

{{subst:prod|reason}}

{{db-album}}

{{db-band}}

• Template messages

{{unreferenced}} {{unreferencedsection}}

{{refimprove}} {{refimprovesect}}

{{ProseTimeline|article or section}}

{{Quotefarm}}

{{intro-tooshort}}

{{trivia}}

{{cleanup-link rot}}

• User:Fezmar9/sandbox1 (List of Converge members) – Anything before Jane Doe is so poorly documented, this is quite the challenge...
• User:Fezmar9/sandbox2 (Heiress (band)) – waiting for Early Frost to be released/reviewed
• User:Fezmar9/sandbox3 (pieces of Axe to Fall) – not sure why I still have this
• User:Fezmar9/sandbox4 (The Austerity Program) – most of the reliable sources are out of date, and don't give very much info. what I have is actually littered with original research.
• User:Fezmar9/sandbox5 (rewrite of Botch (band)) – been far too lazy to sit down and whip out a musical style section
• User:Fezmar9/Magazine scans
• User:Fezmar9/The Allmusic Trickle-Down Effect
• User:Fezmar9/Prophaniti sockpuppetry
• User:Fezmar9/Editcounter