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collaborative web sites, especially the social network sites, and pay-for sites for bios, count as self-published and are clearly disallowed here. Probably the best solution right now is to run a bot to localise the BLPs on
Knowledge (XXG) that use Operissimo as a sole source, and tag them for attention and look for better sources. Additionally, this Knowledge (XXG) qarticle about Operissimo should probably be expaded with mentions about how it operates (sourced, of course).--
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I'm sorry but I don't see a problem here. Have you found a source that contradicts operissimo's entry on the artist Kay
Griffel? It doesn't appear that you have in looking at that conversation. Indeed, I have added another ref to the article on Kay Griffel from the
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Apart from working extensively within
Knowledge (XXG) BLP policy and repairing 100s of BLP rticles on the fly, I have absolutely no knowledge of opera matters, or their on- or off-line sources. However, as a comparison, even the
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and any facts in it should be cross-checked with and replaced by more reliable sources. One of the problems with the online
Operissimo is that none of their articles list any sources themselves. Another is that artists can pay
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Also, the official name of the website is simply "Operissimo" from what I can see from their own main page and impressum information, despite the fact that Intute and other library web resource pages (e.g.
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