User talk:Paulmarsy

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R. C. Bray

I thought you might like some additional, unsolicited feedback about the article you wrote on R. C. Bray. I do not dispute for a moment my colleague Graeme Bartlett having passed the article for inclusion in Wikipedia. However, I have outlined below some of my comments on the sources below which may help you when creating more articles:

Facebook is disallowed
Voices.com is an Ad
http://www.michaelstephenfuchs.com appears to have nothing to do with the bio
https://www.rcbray.com/about See: WP:Primary source
https://audiobookreviewer.com is an interview - self supplied content
https://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?docId=1002993001 primary source: self submitted content
http://www.thefearsaga.com/books.html appears to have nothing to do with the bio
https://www.rcbray.com/copy-of-about primary source
http://www.booklistreader.com/2016/05/11/audiobooks/the-years-best-audiobooks-2016-audie-award-winners/ nominated (paranormal) but not a winner. No in-depth coverage
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/the-martian-wins-audie-award-for-best-science-fiction-audiobook-300090813.html confirms the win of an award or awards but is not in-depth coverage
https://www.audiofilemagazine.com/narrators/rc-bray/ treats the subject. Possibly reliable. Probably adds to notability

It's possible that the awards make him notable, but that depends on how important the awards are (the extent to which they are recognised in the literary world). Guidelines to read are WP:NAUTHOR, WP:RS, and WP:V. Hope this helps. Happy editing. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 19:31, 12 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for the feedback, it is very welcome!

I've removed the links to voices.com and the two audiobooks which don't add to the bio. I've removed the 2016 award, I didn't realise it was only a nomination.

The other comments relate to using primary sources, is it acceptable to keep the information from them until better sources can be found? I believe it should be ok from my understanding of WP:FACEBOOK and WP:BLPSELFPUB, apart from the awards section which I will attempt to find better sources for.

The Audie Awards should give notability, there is a quote in the wiki link stating they are "the Oscars of the audiobook industry" – Paul · ✉ 13:24, 16 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I've updated the awards to be only where I could find a source and found some news articles from Forbes, The Guardian, Yahoo Finance. – Paul · ✉ 14:10, 16 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Kudpung: Sorry, I don't know if my previous replies notified you that I had replied, wikitext feels a very strange format to use for a forum!

Your help desk question

You have responses.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 17:23, 27 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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I've added the appropriate (creative commons v3) tag to the image now – Paul · ✉ 18:54, 14 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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