User talk:Tlb69

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Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. Thanks for writing the article Tommy Burgess. Unfortunately it doesn't conform to some of Wikipedia's guidelines for new articles. However, please do not be disheartened by what may happen to your first article, if indeed it is deleted. Please continue to edit Wikipedia and add articles which conform with the inclusion criteria. For help, see Help:Contents. To find out what will probably be deleted, see Criteria for speedy deletion and What Wikipedia is not. Thanks, and if you have any questions, please ask them on my user talk page. To do this, click on my name (just after this sentence) and click discussion at the top and then the (+) button at the top. EALacey 17:12, 29 March 2007 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the reply on Talk:Tommy Burgess. Unfortunately, as described at Attribution, all material included on Wikipedia has to be attributable to a reliable published source. This means that an unpublished interview is not an adequate source for an article. (The justification for this is that other editors should be able to verify an article's accuracy.)
 * In addition, besides the availablity of reliable published sources, Wikipedia articles need to clear another hurdle: "notability". This is described at Notability, but in brief, the subject of an article must have received "non-trivial" coverage in "independent" sources. There's more info on how this applies to articles about musicians at Notability (music).
 * This probably all sounds rather legalistic, and perhaps it is. But the aim of Wikipedia, like any encyclopedia, is to present an overview of information available elsewhere, and the policies mentioned above have proven useful in ensuring that it includes only verifiable information about topics that external sources have found to be notable. Thank you for contributing to Wikipedia, and please feel free to add content that falls within the inclusion criteria. EALacey 18:41, 29 March 2007 (UTC)