User talk:Thomas Federico

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 * Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia! Rankersbo (talk) 09:31, 4 December 2013 (UTC)

Hi, there Thomas. Couple of things I thought I would note.


 * 1) The article seems to be copied and pasted straight from the band's website, which isn't allowed. You can release the text to wikipedia using a release process, but that makes the text public domain. It may not be worth the effort as the website and wikipedia page serve different purposes- the website is there to promote the band, while wikipedia pages must be factual and not promotional. For those reasons I would recommend starting from scratch.
 * 2) All the sources to the article are linked to the band. Articles need some independent, reliable sources to show the content is noteworthy.

Rankersbo (talk) 09:24, 4 December 2013 (UTC)