Talk:Terry Blade

Describing him as a crooner

I don't see any sources describing him as a crooner. Instead, a couple of sources have described particular passages in song as crooning. That's too little basis for saying he is a crooner in Wikipedia's voice.

What is needed is a source saying explicitly that Terry Blade is a crooner. Something describing his career or his established style. Something that applies the concept of crooner to the man rather than to a small section of his music. Binksternet (talk) 20:25, 13 January 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for providing a better explanation for your edits. I see your point of view - and it makes sense. Polemic-nerd (talk) 20:57, 13 January 2024 (UTC)

We need a hatchet to half the article, and the unreliable sources tag needs to stay.

phantompowermusic.com, musicbrainz.org, broadjamjazz.com, litmusicawards.com, countryqueer.com (just the first few I checked) are not WP:Reliable Sources. That doesn't mean they can't be used for some things, but they don't have any indication of an editorial staff, vetting or fact checking, so they fail RS for use in sourcing facts. There are likely more of these, and honestly, 140 awards in a few years is a big claim, and the majority of these awards are not notable in themselves, so are likely to leave the article as well. Keep in mind, the primary goal here is to provide WP:Verifiable information from reliable sources, about notable topics, winning notable awards. The goal isn't to pad the article as big as we can make it. It is better to have less infomration but higher quality, than more information from blogs and other Wordpress sites. Dennis Brown 2¢ 07:55, 20 January 2024 (UTC)

• If the sources aren't brought up to WP:RS standard soon, I will be forced to just remove those sections. Same for the awards that themselves are not notable. One good indication of notability is if the awards have a Wikipedia article. If they don't, then they are probably not notable and shouldn't be included in the article. This is a WP:BLP article, ie: biography of a living person, so the standards for verifications and sourcing are very high. Dennis Brown 2¢ 07:58, 20 January 2024 (UTC)
• Thanks Binksternet, I couldn't have done it better myself. Exactly what I was looking to get done. With the fluff gone, it is a much better article now. Dennis Brown 2¢ 04:56, 2 February 2024 (UTC)

California Music Video Awards

Not sure this meets our criteria for notable awards. 2024 was the 7th edition. TasteTV is the only RS on the first page of looking, the rest is social media. Assuming TasteTV is RS, it is pretty thin. Dennis Brown 2¢ 09:26, 9 February 2024 (UTC)