Talk:Live and Unsigned

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Most of the citations and references are either directly lifted from press released from the company that runs Live and Unsigned, or from the companies website itself, making this entire article suspect.
 * replaced all first party citations in intro with third party substitutes  Sloggerbum  ( talk ) 03:19, 27 August 2011 (UTC)

neutrality
Whilst I'm well aware of the wikipedia policy on what constitutes a reliable source, I'm concerned that the internet is full of blog entrys and forum posts about how many bands feel that from their experiences with live and unsigned, this competition is basically a massive con to sell loads of gig tickets and make the organisers as much money as possible. What would happen if we were to add a controversy section that quoted from some of these blogs or fanzines and perhaps quoted the bands directly? Eg "The singer in Band X stated that he felt etc etc". I might have a go and just see what happens. Coolug (talk) 11:00, 19 August 2011 (UTC)

About controversy
Here's my thoughts on the controversy section: if the Detours did get bilked out of their prize, I feel that counts as a notable controversy. I'm a little squeamish giving the facts much prominence, though; if you read the article, it was just posted by one guy in a facebook post. Why hasn't the band as a whole made a bigger deal about this, if it's true? Maybe there's a delayed prize thing, or something? More facts are needed. I'm going to leave the section about Michael Smith in for now, though I'd really like to see that backed up somewhere else than a facebook quote.

About the cost of the show, I don't feel that counts as a controversy. For one, I did a shitload of OCD research (you can tell with the bloated reference section), and I couldn't find any actual publications making any complaints whatsoever about the cost. I read the pop cop article: which told a story of people paying what, like $20 bucks to compete in the first round, and after being informed of the costs to move to the next round, can choose to decline (which the subject in question did). If some sort of controversy about the cost ever seeps into reliable sources in the media (not just a pop blog quoting some random participant's online ramble) then I say we consider adding it in.  Sloggerbum  ( talk ) 23:05, 26 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Also, I checked out some other talent show pages, and couldn't find any inclusion of participant's feelings about the show (Survivor doesn't have any sort of paragraph on the losing participant's bitterness, etc.). The Eurovision article had a section on controversies, but none of the included information was based on blogs, fanzines, or forums, and were instead all established publications. (see Survivor_(TV_series), Must Be the Music (TV series), and Eurovision Song Contest).  Sloggerbum  ( talk ) 00:13, 27 August 2011 (UTC)
 * I got curious and looked up Self published sources, which reads Self-published and questionable sources [Facebook comments] may be used as sources of information about themselves, usually in articles about themselves or their activities, without the requirement in the case of self-published sources that they be published experts in the field, so long as it does not involve claims about third parties. Ok, so trying to interpret this - his claim about the prize is making a statement about himself, I suppose (i.e. he didn't receive the investment), but it's also making a statement about a third party (i.e. the assertion that they didn't pay). Thoughts on this? Also, we don't have a link to the original facebook quote. Ok, I'm going to assume (correct me if I'm wrong) that if the existence of the facebook quote was in a reliable publication like, say, The Wall Street Journal or even a small regional newspaper, then it might be admissable.  But the The Pop Cop seems to be a popular music blog operated by a anonymous single person. That takes us back to the problem with using blogs. Between confusion about the facebook quote and the unknown source, and I'm going to take the safe route and take the quote down. God, I confused myself. (for posterity sake, here is the article and quote in question.  Sloggerbum  ( talk ) 15:36, 27 August 2011 (UTC)

IMO there definitely needs to be a controversy section - personally I don't feel that Live and Unsigned is more disreputable than the music industry in general but a google search for Live and Unsigned returns so many "scam" results it's far from encyclopaedic to ignore them. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.11.79.221 (talk) 18:45, 11 March 2012 (UTC)

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