User talk:Brokesocscene

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Filling in the edit summary field greatly helps your fellow contributors in understanding what you changed, so please always fill in the edit summary field. If you are adding a section, please do not just keep the previous section's header in the Edit summary field – please fill in your new section's name instead. Thank you. —  Spike Toronto  06:56, 17 January 2011 (UTC)

Matt Epp
Notability on here is entirely a question of proper, verifiable referencing to media sources. Especially when it's about a living person, we have to be extremely careful; an article can be deleted on sight if it doesn't have at least one good reference in it right off the bat.

It's not enough to assert that he sells thousands of CDs and tours with big names; those aren't valid notability claims if there aren't proper sources present to demonstrate that they're true. I'm willing to restore the page to your userspace for you — it'll be at User:Brokesocscene/Matt Epp — but in order to move back into article space, it has to contain at least one quality reference demonstrating that he explicitly meets at least one criterion of notability as listed at WP:MUSIC. They aren't necessarily complicated criteria — the very first one is nothing more than "has been the subject of multiple, non-trivial, published works appearing in sources that are reliable and are independent from the musician or ensemble itself" — but the references do have to be there, because the references themselves are what defines whether notability is present or not. A discussion forum like DogstarRadio isn't really enough, nor are the webpages of individual festivals where he's played or his own website; references need to be to media coverage (books, newspapers, actual radio interviews, MuchMusic, magazines, etc.)

The thing is, even the dinkiest little garage band can claim to have sold 100,000 copies of their debut EP and to have millions of fans worldwide — but without a valid source, Wikipedia has no way to verify whether that's actually true or not. Which is why notability on here isn't just a question of what the article says he achieved, if the sources aren't there to back up the claims. Hope that helps a bit. Bearcat (talk) 21:58, 9 January 2011 (UTC)


 * At the top of the page, where the "article", "discussion", "read", "edit", etc. tabs are, you should have one that's just a downpointing arrow. Mouse over that, and you should see a drop-down menu with the word "move" in it; click on that and go from there. If you still have trouble, come back to me and I'll move it for you — but obviously I prefer to help people learn to do it themselves :-) Bearcat (talk) 05:17, 2 February 2011 (UTC)

Adding comments to talk pages
Hi, and thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. Your recent talk page comments on Maclean's were not added to the bottom of the page. New discussion page messages and topics should always be added to the bottom. Your message may have been moved by another user. In the future you can use the "New section" link in top right. For more details see talk page guidelines. Thank you. —  Spike Toronto  06:59, 17 January 2011 (UTC)

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