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 | This page in a nutshell: Don't use Wikipedia articles about music as the only source for concert programme notes. |
This is a warning to concert organizers: Don't use Wikipedia as the only source for concert programme notes.[1] Whether or not you give Wikipedia credit (see Wikipedia:Citing Wikipedia for information on how to do that), there are many problems with copying directly from Wikipedia for this purpose.
- ^ Per the original author of this essay, this has happened thrice in the past year (probably 2008–09): The original author of this essay went to a classical music concert, and claimed the programme notes were copied straight out of Wikipedia. They also claimed that only for one of the concerts was Wikipedia acknowledged. The author also claimed such Wikipedia sourcing has also happened with classical CDs: a digitally remastered recording of Franz Konwitschny conducting Britten, Khrennikov and Orff was claimed to contain a brief biography of Konwitschny which was copied straight out of Wikipedia.