Talk:New Voices (Celtic Connections musical commission)

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Self-published references[edit]

@Mccapra: A "self-published" template has been placed on this article.

I have reviewed the references (111 of them at the time of writing) and found:

63 from major newspapers,
5 from the most important magazines in the genre,
3 from a significant independent arts body,
8 from less significant but still independent websites,
11 which are genuinely self-published (mostly CC themselves, plus musicians' own websites),
19 from independent listings magazines.

Sorry if that doesn't quite add up to 111. It was just a quick thing.

So you already have a much larger number of first-class references than you would find in many lists of this type. More importantly, the self-published sources and listings magazines are referenced for the sole purpose of establishing which artists were commissioned in which year. The template asks us to remove "unreliable sources where they are used inappropriately." IMO the use of an event brochure or a listings magazine simply to validate the facts of what event was presented on what date is very appropriate.

Hence I am removing the template. --Monxton (talk) 13:41, 8 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]