User talk:Reikiwhitelight

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Hello, Reikiwhitelight, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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Your question

The first thing to understand is that Wikipedia is an encyclopedia and only reports on people and things that are already established - it is not interested in the up and coming until they have up and come. The Wikipedia term is notability, which is not a matter of subjective opinion but needs to be demonstrated by showing "significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject." Significant means more than just listing-type mentions; reliable excludes Myspace, blogs, places where anyone can post anything; independent excludes the subject's own website, affiliated ones and press releases. There is more detail at Notability (people) and, for musical performers, at WP:BAND. So the first thing to do is make sure that your subject is notable enough in that sense; otherwise an article about him will not survive.

A good starting-point is the guideline on writing WP:Your first article, and the others linked from the Welcome paragraph above, also WP:Writing better articles. My advice would be to start by reading WP:Your first article carefully, and following some of the links from it to learn more. You can prepare a draft of your article in a page in your user space, for instance at User:Reikiwhitelight/Bradley Potter - click on that red-link and you can edit the page - and when it is ready post a link to it at WP:Feedback to ask for other editors' opinions.

Regards, JohnCD (talk) 11:32, 26 January 2010 (UTC)

Bradley Potter

I feel I should explain why I have removed your insertions of Bradley Potter from Panic! at the Disco and the V Festival. One of the guidelines of Wikipedia is that information added to the encyclopedia should be referenced to a source. While you did not provide a source for this information, I did try and do Google searches to see if the information you added could be verified. However, I was unable to find any corroborating sources that confirms that Potter played for Panic! or at the festival. While the information may be true, the threshhold for including information on Wikipedia is Verifiability, not Truth. And since you have stated that you are working on a documentary about Bradley Potter, you should read Wikipedia's article on conflict of interest. If you have any questions, feel free to ask! Angryapathy (talk) 14:33, 26 January 2010 (UTC)