"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