Talk:Layla Taj

Promotional, needs clean-up

The sources used for this article are almost all promotional press-releases, notifying the public of planned performances (and the performer's background) before the performances themselves, with biographies apparently based on what the subject says about themselves, plus embellishments by the Wikipedia editor. The subject's web-site offers videos of themselves for sale. At least one source is actually a blog, and (ignoring for a moment that it should not be used at all) is misused; the article text has "Some have noted that Taj's bloodline of ancient Greek nobility is justification for her depiction." In the blog, it's not "some", and it's not a justification. It's an observation that Taj's performance as Cleopatra is the only one by an Egyptian performed "in a significant manner" that the blogger (Abdi Ferdosa) knows of. Nothing there about the Greek nobility.

Wikipedia doesn't usually allow blogs as sources (see WP:Blog - not even when a very positive comment is made in response to that tiny part of the blog pertaining to Taj, just 2 days before the access date given by the WP editor. Haploidavey (talk) 06:29, 11 August 2021 (UTC)

For confirmation of what makes someone or something notable, and what is (and what is not) regarded as a reliable source, please see WP:Notability#General notability guideline and WP:Reliable sources. Haploidavey (talk) 09:29, 11 August 2021 (UTC)