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Prior content in this article duplicated one or more previously published sources. The material was copied from: http://www.eclassical.com/shop/17115/art84/4835484-655f8c-BIS-2080_booklet.pdf and http://www.askonasholt.co.uk/artists/singers/baritone-bass-baritone/james-rutherford. Copied or closely paraphrased material has been rewritten or removed and must not be restored, unless it is duly released under a compatible license. (For more information, please see "using copyrighted works from others" if you are not the copyright holder of this material, or "donating copyrighted materials" if you are.) For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or published material; such additions will be deleted. Contributors may use copyrighted publications as a source of information, and according to fair use may copy sentences and phrases, provided they are included in quotation marks and referenced properly. The material may also be rewritten, but only if it does not infringe on the copyright of the original orplagiarize from that source. Therefore such paraphrased portions must provide their source. Please see our guideline on non-free text for how to properly implement limited quotations of copyrighted text. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously, and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. While we appreciate contributions, we must require all contributors to understand and comply with these policies. Thank you. Voceditenore (talk) 11:01, 4 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Apart from being a blatant copyvio from the above sources, this article was not written in encyclopedic style. Wikipedia is not the place to post an artist's CV complete with puffery such as "presigious" and devoid of references to independent sources. To all editors of this article, if you have any affiliation whatsoever with James Rutherford or his agents, Askonas Holt Artist Management, please read WP:Conflict of interest and follow the guidelines there scrupulously. Unreferenced claims, PR hype, and listing of "future Plans" will be removed on sight. Save that for his artist's page on his management's website. It is not appropriate here. Voceditenore (talk) 11:11, 4 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
