User talk:Cynical Andy~enwiki

Music genres
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Any additions to Wikipedia need to be supported by reliable sources. Any unsourced material can be removed immediately per WP:V. --Madchester (talk) 14:45, 23 July 2008 (UTC)

Fan sites are not considered reliable sources. I recommend discussing your proposed changes on the article talk page before making any further edits to the article. Thanks. --Madchester (talk) 16:06, 23 July 2008 (UTC)

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, adding content without citing a reliable source is not consistent with our policy of verifiability. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. If you are familiar with Citing sources, please take this opportunity to add references to the article. --Madchester (talk) 13:53, 25 July 2008 (UTC)

Please do not add unsourced or original content. Doing so violates Wikipedia's verifiability policy. If you continue to do so, your edits will be considered vandalism and you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. Please review the comments I left below. Thanks. --Madchester (talk) 16:08, 27 July 2008 (UTC)

Re: Recent edits
Just a few comments:


 * 1) None of your 3 recent sources Wiki's reliable source criteria. Real.com is not recognized as a musical authority. Tower Records is simply a sales site, and would be considered a questionable source to avoid, since it is promotional in nature. While the BBC is recognized as a reliable source, you took the Coldplay reference from a reader comment, i..e, a self-published forum postings and it's not accepted as a legit source.
 * 2) While Allmusic is recognized as a reliable source for popular music, it has inconsistently labeled Coldplay in its articles. Per WP:BLP, we have to write conservatively about biographical subjects, and due to the site's inconsistency we can't use it as a definitive reference for Coldplay being a Britpop artist.
 * 3) You may have noticed that the Coldplay site recently made a posting critiquing the accuracy of its Wikipedia entry. Going back to WP:BLP, we have to carefully write about biographical subjects so that we don't misrepresent them.  I don't want Wikipedia to go through another Seigenthaler incident.

I stress that you discuss your proposed edits on the article's talk page, before going through with them. Cheers, --Madchester (talk) 05:51, 26 July 2008 (UTC)

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