[WikiEN-l] Expertise
charles matthews
charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com
Mon Nov 21 17:31:07 UTC 2005
"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
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