Talk:Danny Schmidt
External Links / Whole Wheat Radio
Concerning User:CalendarWatcher's removal of Whole Wheat Radio link and establishing Danny Schmidt's notablity - previous discussion includes:
- Whole Wheat Radio - Notability established
- Initial explanation concerning Whole Wheat Radio as spam
- Further explanation and reaction
- Further discussion, request for clarification
- Danny Schmidt has performed several times at Whole Wheat Radio, where audio is freely available. Anyone searching to learn more about Danny Schmidt will find his association with Whole Wheat Radio to be both apropos professionally and personally.
Concerning Danny Schmidt's notablity:
- Kerrville Folk Festival 2007 winner - please refer to each linked artist on that page. Those knowledgeable with the singer-songwriter profession will clearly identify Danny Schmidt as having achieved the same level of professional musicianship as any of the other notable entries.
- Waterbug Records - the same is true when comparing artists from Waterbug Records in terms of notability. In fact, Danny has recently been signed to Red House Records, a recognized national label. Only artists who have achieved a level of professional recognition are on Red House.
- It is, in fact, quite remarkable that anyone familiar with the independent singer-songwriter arena today would question Danny Schmidt's notability. With quotes from such notables as Rich Warren, WUMB, XM-Radio's Mary Sue Twohy and many others on that list, Danny has more bona-fide external source notability than several of the other artists on the two lists above.
Although I would happily remove some of the superlative "ad-like" wording of this article that I created, I am no longer comfortable editing singer-songwriter pages on Wikipedia because it is apparently assumed I have a COI even though I personally stand to gain nothing by enhancing the Wikipedia knowledge base of acoustic singer-songwriters and by providing a link to an external site that is completely non-commercial. The default assumption no longer seems to be "good faith" nor am I seeing a significant effort to research or communicate before claiming spam/COI. I am not interested in edit wars, notability wars --wars of any kind-- or defending against "assumption of non-good faith/spam/commercial/COI" attacks.
If others wish to remove this notable artist from Wikipedia and/or remove any/all links to an equally notable wiki-based non-commercial grassroots driven webcast called Whole Wheat Radio so be it. Whole Wheat Radio will continue to provide a source of non-commercial, grassroots, volunteer maintained, 100% free, wiki-based audio, video, encyclopedic and non-encyclopedic reference materials related to independent musicians and music. Jimkloss (talk) 06:26, 18 November 2008 (UTC)