On Nov 21, 2005, at 8:45 AM, <dpbsmith(a)verizon.net>
<dpbsmith(a)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