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Advice, mainly on notability

...as promised, with apologies for the delay. I've already pointed you to WP:Your first article and WP:MUSICBIO; WP:Notability is the general guideline on that subject, and I think that is your major problem here. The essence of it is that to establish notability you need to show "significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject." Significant means more than just listing-type mentions; reliable excludes places where anyone can post anything, like Myspace, Facebook, blogs; independent excludes the subject's own website, affiliated ones and anything based on press releases. The idea is that we at Wikipedia don't make judgements on who or what is important; we ask, have other people, independent of the subject, thought it important and significant enough to write about? That means that the up and coming get excluded, but an encyclopedia is not here to help people on their way up, its business is to report on those who have already arrived.

I suspect you are going to have a problem showing notability for Ms Siegman to the standard of WP:MUSICBIO. There is a useful test which helps here, described in User:Uncle G/On notability#Writing about subjects close to you:

When writing about subjects that are close to you, don't use your own personal knowledge of the subject, and don't cite yourself, your web site, or the subject's web site. Instead, use what is written about the subject by other people, independently, as your sources. Cite those sources in your very first edit. If you don't have such sources, don't write.

This isn't a case of writing about something close to you, but the same principle applies: the same idea is described in WP:Amnesia test. If you can write an article on that basis, then you can use the subject's own website etc to verify more details, but if you can't, it probably means the subject is not notable.

One other important policy you should read, though it will probably not give you any problems, is WP:Biographies of living persons.

You can ask for comments on your draft by posting at WP:Requests for feedback.

Regards, JohnCD (talk) 22:47, 1 December 2010 (UTC)