[WikiEN-l] Expertise

[charles matthews]

"Philip Sandifer"  wrote

>. If the world's foremost expert on  barbershop quartets comes and tells me 
>that the Roadshow quartet is  of tremendous importance and significance to 
>the barbershop  community, but that the MUSIC and BIO guidelines are not 
>written in  such a way that small subcultures of music are marginalized 
>(Which is  the case - the MUSIC guidelines are appallingly slanted against 
>world  music, for example, and are similarly slanted against anything like 
>Barbershop quartets that is generally performed rather than  recorded), I 
>would be strongly inclined to keep, and to feel that the  WP:MUSIC 
>guidelines must be flawed if we are deleting things that are  of such 
>obvious notability.

Good point.  Guidelines exist; they can't all be junked.  On the other hand 
they exist in tension.  Unfortunately, policy, semi-policy, guideline, 
whatever, is used in the same fashion as stone clubs in the Neolithic: 
anything to hand to win an argument.  (Yes, yes, uncalled-for slur on Fred 
Flintstone, I know.)

Charles