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Hello! Forgottenoperasingerslover, you are invited to the Teahouse, a forum on Wikipedia for new editors to ask questions about editing Wikipedia, and get support from peers and experienced editors. Please join us! —This lousy T-shirt— (talk) 16:26, 26 March 2015 (UTC)

Sources

Thank you for creating the article on Margarita Bevignanini. I have tagged your article because Wikipedia requires verifiable sources (see: WP:V). You might want to go back and provide sources or documentation for the statements made in the article. (I find it easier to do as I'm writing the article.) With best wishes -- kosboot (talk) 02:47, 27 March 2015 (UTC)

Wikipedia requires a neutral point of view

@Forgottenoperasingerslover: Hi there - I removed two of the statements on the Bevignani discography section because they are subjective statements. A fundamental rule of Wikipedia is that articles have only a neutral point of view. As the guidelines (at WP:NPOV) say:

• Avoid stating opinions as facts. Usually, articles will contain information about the significant opinions that have been expressed about their subjects. However, these opinions should not be stated in Wikipedia's voice. Rather, they should be attributed in the text to particular sources, or where justified, described as widespread views, etc. For example, an article should not state that "genocide is an evil action", but it may state that "genocide has been described by John X as the epitome of human evil."

You can read more at WP:NPOV. Stating that a soprano had a "perfect technique" will always be an opinion. If someone has written something that says "Bevignani had a perfect technique" you could use that only as a quotation from the source, not as a fact. I hope this clarifies one aspect of Wikipedia policy. kosboot (talk) 06:21, 29 March 2015 (UTC)

WikiProject Opera

WikiProject Opera Hello Forgottenoperasingerslover! I noticed your contributions to an opera article, and thought you might be interested in WikiProject Opera, a collaborative effort to improve Wikipedia's coverage of all aspects of opera. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can find out more about the project. On the project's talk page editors working in the area can exchange ideas and ask questions. Thanks! kosboot (talk) 19:24, 31 March 2015 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free image File:Malvina Pereira.jpg

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Proposed deletion of Olga Simzis

The article Olga Simzis has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Fails WP:BIO

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File permission problem with File:Ayres Borghi-Zerni.jpg

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Orphaned non-free image File:Olga Simzis.jpg

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Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described in the criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. --B-bot (talk) 17:31, 7 May 2015 (UTC)

You must source your articles

Hi and thanks for the articles you are creating about opera singers, but I must remind you once again that you must provide a source for the information in them. Wikipedia requires verifiable sources. Please read Wikipedia:Verifiability and for guidance. Nunù Sanchioni which you have recently created is a case in point. You must have got the information that she was born on 17 September 1908 in Cairo from somewhere. Where? You need to list that source in the article. I've added a couple of sources to that article now, as I did for Olga Simzis which you also created with no references or sources whatsoever. Voceditenore (talk) 14:41, 9 May 2015 (UTC)