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I wrote an article about my hometown and some creep demolished it and made it "official" 0 some people think wikipedia is so serious. You can't have any fun with it - self-important dicks
― Mr Jones (Mr Jones), Saturday, 5 August 2006 12:04 (seventeen years ago) link
I dont understand why they care - its not like if you are in wikipedia you are on the front page of the website or somethin g- you are burried away in the mountains of data - the only way someone would find you is if they already had heard of you and were trying to get more information on you - so what is the problem!
― Mr Jones (Mr Jones), Saturday, 5 August 2006 20:55 (seventeen years ago) link
twelve years pass...
one year passes...
I'm mad about this today, thinking about why almost none of the musicians who are 'big' in my world have wiki pages, and after a friend's band (who regularly tours internationally, have had music in tv shows like Fargo, and have been around for 25 years) got their wiki taken down for not having enough or appropriate notability citations.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability_(music)#Criteria_for_musicians_and_ensembles
Given the state of arts coverage these days, it's increasingly hard to come by reviews (especially concert reviews) that aren't related to promo somehow. Especially for independent artists not on "one of the more important indie labels". And a lot of legit coverage is behind paywalls nowadays.
Given the amount of minutiae on wikipedia, their criteria for music seems weirdly stringent. It could be this great resource for cataloging independent music, better than Discogs or social media, but instead it's a giant gap for the most part. Also seems lame in comparison to every single tv show, movie, and actor automatically being notable by comparison.
― change display name (Jordan), Thursday, 15 April 2021 16:18 (three years ago) link
one year passes...
Lol. I know I posted about this just upthread, but it's still annoying -- "going on a real tour" and "making money" are becoming less and less common. And apparently being on big-ish indie labels and getting actual reviews isn't necessarily enough to warrant a wiki page (thinking about say producers that have put records out on Hyperdub and get reviewed in Resident Advisor, or whatever).
In a time when album credits aren't available many places it would be nice if wikipedia was more accessible for music.
― change display name (Jordan), Tuesday, 15 November 2022 22:39 (one year ago) link
Wikipedia bullies! Poor street musician "no one cares about"
- people who hear him care!
I was pleased to learn of https://deletionpedia.org/en/Main_Page
Who decides what culture is important! Who!? SHow me the credentials that govern this! Show me the shining badges of these culture cops!
― | (Latham Green), Wednesday, 16 November 2022 16:58 (one year ago) link