Talk:Kevin Manthei

Biased opinion and lack of sources

This article appears to constitute a biased opinion of this composer. It also does not cite any references and much of the information seems to be copied from the composer's official site [1]. Tds247 (talk) 06:10, 19 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I removed what I thought was a copyright violation on 3 April, and informed the editor who created the article (see User talk:Daveswallace); I also mentioned the policy on COI. However the text in question was soon restored by this editor, with a fairly uncivil message to me (see User talk:MightyWarrior#David Wallace). -- MightyWarrior (talk) 10:54, 19 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Validity of Content & Request for Help

First off, my sincere apologies Mighty Warrior; this was my first go at editing, and I spent hours compiling this information onto this page. I didn't know the information was retrievable, and I contacted the editor in deep frustration, researched his concerns, then contacted him again (in civility) before restoring the article User talk:MightyWarrior#Kevin Manthei Page Survival. It was first thought this page was a duplicate of another online site [2] but this information was also provided by the composer himself.

There are still two possible problems facing this article. First, the composer is the only complete, concrete source of this information (though much of it is easily verifiable with the various projects), and he is on the younger side and not been fully profiled yet. However, he is the foremost authority on this subject, and is easily accessible from his website to verify anything. I am too new to fully understand the appropriate citation requirements, but do know that the composer himself is a valid source. Second, I am his assistant, and am the sole editor on the article, which can be considered a conflict of interest. I have asked the Wikipedia:WikiProject Musicians for help revising it, and would encourage a change in the voicing to meet encyclopedic styling criteria.

I still assert that this information is complete, accurate, verifiable, and of interest to the wiki community. --~ [Daveswallace] (talk) 19:31, 22 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Statements in the article, worded neutrally, should link to a suitable webpage containing the same information, in order to satisfy Wikipedia:Verifiability. If something does not explicitly appear in a reliable source such as the official web site, it probably should not exist in this article. Shawnc (talk) 10:04, 28 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]