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To the question from 4meter4: 'in what way does this read as PR or as not encyclopedic?' Oh dear, where even to begin? For starters:
The point of a wikipedia article is to cover important highlights and events related to a given subject. In the context of an opera singer, wikipedia is not a forum to serve as a laundry list of every single concert appearance. That is what the artist's own website is for, and on Marina Costa-Jackson's own site, that is perfectly acceptable practice, not to mention intelligent. There is no point to such a list on wikipedia. Simply stating that she sang a concert in locations 'X' and 'Y' is of no interest whatsoever, if there is no larger import whatsoever to that appearance. Her sister's wikipedia page is a perfect example of a very PR-like page that, as impressive as it looks, belongs on her own personal page, and not on wikipedia.
In addition, future engagements should not even be on a wikipedia page at all for individual artists. (The fact that it may happen elsewhere on wikipedia, and perhaps frequently, does not make it correct practice.) Listing or mentioning future specific engagements is, by definition, PR. Wikipedia covers important events and actions that a given personage has done or is currently doing, not what that person intends to do in the future, or events that have not yet happened. Things may change, and for example, Marina Costa-Jackson may get another engagement that will cause her to withdraw from the WNO production and appear elsewhere. I am not saying that this will happen, merely that it could, and thus another singer would replace her in the event of such an occurrence. This would require continual updating of the wikipedia page, but again, this is material suitable for her own page or for her agency's page, not for wikipedia. (Furthermore, if one is going to mention a debut, it is more respectful of the opera company in question to cite their own announcement, and not a gossip blog, because the opera company is the primary source of that information.)
I could go on, but this will suffice for now. For the moment, I'll 'meet in the middle' and retain most of the content that is not proper wikipedia material, to minimise to a degree potential edit wars. DJRafe (talk) 16:02, 9 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
