"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