Talk:MTF Labs

This article was nominated for deletion on 2 March 2015 (UTC). The result of the discussion was keep.

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I'd like to make the case for Music Tech Fest being suitable for inclusion into the encyclopedia. I'd be happy to help edit to bring the article in line with guidance - but would like to underline that the festival is a significant and sufficiently notable global cultural event that is certainly worthy of a page. I also know of others who are keen to help develop the page and add corrections and verifications. This is a community festival and it will be a community edited page. The page was kindly started by one member of the community today, who then notified me of this, and the page will be further developed and modified by others.

The purpose of this Wikipedia page is not advertorial, but rather to provide factual information about a festival of ideas that started as an annual London event and now takes place in different places around the world.

I shall make some initial corrections and remove anything that may be read as advertorial, but in the interests of avoiding any conflict of interest, I will leave further edits to members of the wider community.

Andrewdubber (talk) 22:54, 2 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

As I wrote to the original author: To me, it reads like one big advertisement with a tremendous coat rack to hang all the famous names. To make it worse, it is poorly sourced. Not that you have not enough sources, but you have the wrong sources. When looking at sources, your should keep in mind Wikipedia Reliable Sources. In general, you should use independent (not related to the festival), reliable (no social media like Facbook, YouTube, Tmblr etc.) prior published sources. That is not as hard as it sounds to be. The Banner talk 23:23, 2 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the feedback Banner. I have made suitable edits following your guidance. Hopefully this rectifies the worst of the problem, and that the contributions of community members will also improve and develop the page over time.

Andrewdubber (talk) 00:51, 3 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Media coverage[edit]

@Maxbaraitsersmith: Instead of a "Media coverage" section with a long list of sources, I suggest you use those sources that are independent to write additional content for the Wikipedia article. Please also add the URL in each of the {{cite web}} templates. With so many sources, I don't see the value in listing press releases (e.g. the Insider coverage). Thanks, and happy editing! GoingBatty (talk) 13:52, 21 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Typo in home page URL reference[edit]

It seems like there is a typo / switched characters in the first reference: it says http://www.mftlabs.net/ (which also doesn't resolve), but should rather by http://www.mtflabs.net/