Wikipedia:WikiProject Opera/Unreferenced BLPs

This page is part of WikiProject Opera's ongoing effort to clean up unsourced opera-related biographies of living people (BLPs). Please help by adding reliable sources to any articles listed at Wikipedia:WikiProject Opera/New unreferenced BLPs. The list is generated daily by DASHBot which tags unreferenced BLPs carrying our project's banner and notifies the article's creator.

You can also check for newly created opera-related articles at User:AlexNewArtBot/OperaSearchResult. If you find new unsourced articles about living people, consider sourcing them yourself. If this is not possible, please tag the article with the template {{BLP unsourced}} and notify the article's creator about the problem on their talk page. Sample message:

Hi! It seems you recently created an unreferenced [[Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons|biography of a living person]]: '''[[article name]]'''. Wikipedia's [[Wikipedia:Verifiability|verifiability policy]] requires that all content be [[Wikipedia:Citing sources|cited]] to a [[Wikipedia:Reliable sources|reliable source]]. Please add references as soon as possible. Thanks! ~~~~

Once you have reliably sourced an article (or find that someone else has), please remove the {{BLP unsourced}} template from the article.

See also:

Notes on sourcing:

  • Check the history of the article. Several lengthy articles were reduced to one-line stubs, by editors claiming that all unsourced information was "contentious", e.g. Mary Costa.
  • Be wary of using material from BBC Music. This sub-site of the BBC posts reader-generated reviews and "biographies" which are mirrors of Wikipedia. Also watch bach-cantatas.com. Their biographies can be useful as a short-term solution but some of them are lifted from Wikipedia. NME is one to be very wary of. Virtually all the biographies in the NME online version are lifted from Wikipedia or are reader-generated. They're not from the print edition.
  • You can often find encylopedia or dictionary entries more easily at Google books by searching with last name first in quotes, e.g. "Kuusisto, Ilkka".