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Copy-editing. Opera titles should be italicised and follow the Opera Project capitalisation guidance here. Article needs to be trimmed of unreferenced, résumé-like material, e.g. last paragraph. Simply listing works and concert venues she has allegedly sung with no references and no cennection betrween work and venue, adds nothing to the article.
Reference style is confusing and unclear. All references should be references not divided into "notes" and "references". Note also that newspaper references need author, date of publication, original language article title, link on the publication (if it has a Wikipedia article) and publication name needs to be italicised.
References need improvement. There are still some unsourced statements regarding performances (or poorly referenced ones. IMDB should not be used as a reference and there is far too great a reliance on official biographies. Please add reviews, etc. from reliable independent sources. Here's one, with can be used for the Teatro Real performance:
That page also has a link to a New York Times review. Please access the review and add it to the article. I'm not going to do it myself because I don't want to use up my monthly free-access limit to that paper.
I'd like to help improve the article, but I need better understanding of the issues.
The copy edit tag is by nature vague. The tag says that the article needs improvement in one or more of five areas: grammar, style, cohesion, tone, or spelling. What exactly needs to be improved in this particular article?
The BLP sources tag asks for more references. It seems to me that 16 references is quite a bit above average for articles on contemporary opera singers. Compare for example with the article on the much more established opera singer Waltraud Meier https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waltraud_meier with 9 references (or actually 8 because two references refer to the same source). Is it the number of references that is the problem in the Kerstin Avemo article, or is it the quality of the references? --Klättermusen (talk) 09:32, 9 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
I've removed the large ref improve tag, as there are now reasonably sufficient sources. However, I have marked the IMDB reference as [better source needed]. IMDB is not considered a reliable source. In any case, the film in question hasn't even come out yet. Frankly, I don't think it belongs in the article until it has and there are independent sources for her participation in it. As for the copy-editing tag, experienced copy-editors can usually tell at a glance what's needed. I've gone ahead and copy-edited it and removed the tag. This gives an idea of what needed to be done. Best wishes, Voceditenore (talk) 10:30, 9 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
