User talk:Mandopop

FM3

Hello Christiaan, thank you for contacting me. I'm sorry it's taken so long to respond but I'll try to provide any advice that I can regarding the FM3 article. I'll be providing links below to specific information that may be helpful, but if any of it is not clear please let me know.

ProhibitOnions has restored the article, and I see that you have updated it since then. In order to avoid deletion on grounds of notability, reliable secondary sources have to be added, and the more we can get the better. These sources provide the content of the article and ideally, any facts introduced in the article will have some source to back it up that a reader can refer back to. That said, it would also be good to expand the article beyond the Buddha Machine and include more information about the history of your group. This could include information on how you began working together, collaborations that you have worked on, any awards or accolades that you have won, etc. along with sources that back up this information. For instance, I remember reading that you did some work for the Louvre in 2004, but have been unable to find a news articles about this.

The article should be written like a biography and there are some guidelines provided by the musician work group of the biography wiki-project for writing an article like this. These guidelines show the preferred structure of an article and the sort of information that should be included. You can look at articles that have been peer reviewed and given Good Article Status or Featured Article Status to get an idea of what a well developed article looks like. Ultimately this is what the FM3 article should look like, but the necessary information must be available in order to get it there.

Finally, as ProhibitOnions said Wikipedia does have a policy against writing articles about yourself, and some editors may take issue with you contributing to your own article. Some people consider this to be a source of bias, while others suggest that if there was anything to write about someone else would have already done it before you had to step in and do it yourself. That said, I don't think there would be a problem with you providing links to news articles and reviews, so long as you don't contribute too heavily to the article directly. Hewinsj (talk) 22:03, 14 July 2011 (UTC)