Talk:Norman Musa

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I am a new Editor to Wikipedia and so if I have done something wrong, I am open to correction - the amount of instructions and help pages are overwhelming, so please bear with me.

It seems to me that this article is being questioned about the degree of notability and the sources behind the article. I have gleaned much of the information from published sources such as his restaurant website www.ningcatering.com, his own website www.normanmusa.com, TV sources such as that on www.malaysianfood.tv and written articles in newspapers and magazines for which there are often no weblinks, but sources can be quoted if required.

The principal source, however, is his own book entitled Malaysian Food which is available on Amazon and in major bookstores across the UK and Malaysia. In fact, Malaysia's NTV7 Breakfast Show recently reported that his book had sold out in the UK.

Norman Musa is a notable figure in Malaysian cuisine, a rapidly rising personality in Malaysia and an authority on Malaysian cuisine in the UK where he created, owns and runs a restaurant and cookery school. Notably, he is widely reported in the sources aforementioned as being the Malaysian chef to the Lotus Racing Formula One team for the 2010 Grand Prix season.

His notability as a chef who has made Malaysian food accessible to the people of Manchester and Northern England is demonstrated by his popular cookery school, appearances at food festivals such as the North West Food Lovers Festival and Taste of London, and comes during a time that the Malaysian Government is promoting Malaysian cuisine through a campaign called Malaysia Kitchen.

Norman Musa is a popular Google search term and I struggle to identify any other Malaysian chef of such public prominence in the UK, and possibly the West.

I am happy to provide further citations and details, but any advice on what the problem is would be greatly appreciated. I declare that I am editor of his book, and therefore I strongly contend that my credentials and reliability of facts are appropriate, accurate and objective.Andysprac (talk) 09:49, 7 October 2010 (UTC)

Further independent sources of facts online: http://www.mmail.com.my/content/32169-malaysian-chef-jumps-f1-kitchen http://www.nst.com.my/nst/articles/21zah/Article/ http://www.kosmo.com.my/kosmo/content.asp?y=2010&dt=0420&pub=Kosmo&sec=Rencana_Utama&pg=ru_01.htm https://202.186.153.7/bharian/articles/ChefNorman/Article/index http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2010/4/4/nation/5992655&sec=nation http://thestar.com.my/columnists/story.asp?file=/2009/10/18/columnists/eurofile/4917340&sec=eurofile http://www.timeout.com/london/restaurants/features/3877.html http://menmedia.co.uk/asiannews/news/s/1130778_malaysian_diva_pops_into_manchester

Many more offline articles are available to verify, including the September 2010 edition of the Malaysian Women's Weekly magazine which highlighted Norman as one of 8 overseas-based Malaysians who had done good for their country, in an article headed "Malaysia's Got Talent". The others included Bernard Chandran who has a Wikipedia entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Chandran Andysprac (talk) 10:13, 7 October 2010 (UTC)