These sources of error are true for both the BBC and e.g. Wikipedia but Wikipedia has many more people, often more expert in the subject editing and reviewing a document. In other words often the error rate is less than in e.g. the BBC. This of course won’t always be true.

The other advantage Wikipedia has is that it is much better at citing sources than media companies and as such it is easier to check the quoted data.

But should it arise then updating via an API is one solution. However, there are problems with this — firstly as you say it distances people from the community, but it also creates a burden on the development team to keep our UI in sync with the API (assuming there is one).

Re the notability problem — it is a risk (and something that was clocked early on in the project). But there are a couple of ‘solutions’ firstly this is only likely to be a problem either for artists that don’t get played on the BBC or are only played once or twice. You then need to question whether not having a biog matters. But if it does then we can provide some text from our own CMS until the artist is notable enough to have a Wikipedia entry.