On Nov 21, 2005, at 8:45 AM, dpbsmith@verizon.net dpbsmith@verizon.net wrote:
If someone were to contribute an article on the Roadshow barbershop quartet, http://www.roadshowquartet.com/ , it would properly be deleted as not meeting WP:MUSIC or WP:BIO. The world's greatest expert on barbershop quartets testifying to their notability in the barbershop community would not matter, and ignoring his testimony would not constitute bias against expertise.
That's absolutely untrue. 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.
-Phil