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Can't we all pitch in and find refs?

Sure, MacLeod doesn't get much press at all, but how many blues artists do, anymore? ...

Same problem with classical performers, btw: Even performing as a soloist, or in a duo at Carnegie Hall, or at Kennedy Center is *very* unlikely to make it into reliable sources print anymore, not since the eviceration of newspapers by Craiglist, first, and then by the internet, more generally.

( See e.g. talk-page documentation of my early-days on WP efforts to find refs to support notability for flutist Nina Assimakopoulos ... which could certainly be proposed for deletion, for the lack of reliable sources support. )

User/Admin GiantSnowman did a thorough, careful, and letter-of-the-law, pitch-perfect job in deleting so much material, but does anyone think, despite the lack of supporting refs, that any of the statements deleted were COI, promotional, or (especially) inaccurate? Personally, I really appreciated the deleted content, and would like to cut this artist some slack re our policies, especially in view of how little press that anyone but the top 2-3 artists in any given musical genre get these days. What does everyone else think about this? Personally, I'd hope that we could sorta exercise (ahem!) something like "benign neglect" to restore the content deleted from this ... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Doug_MacLeod_(musician)&oldid=1173826996 version. Finally, if you don't know this artist's work, I'd just politely suggest that if you listen to his fast-paced blues ballad, "Plaquemine" (find the lyrics somewhere online, first) or to his achingly beautiful "Norfolk County Line", and don't feel the groove, ( the studio recordings from his "Whose Truth, Whose Lies?" album are superb, imo ) then perhaps you might need to check your vital signs... Sincere apologies for the tl;dr post, here. No COI, of course; I've never met the artist, or even seen him perform: I just think he's an amazing talent, despite the extremely sparse press coverage for blues musicians these days. Best, --OhioStandard (talk) 11:45, 22 November 2023 (UTC)

there should be no exceptions to policies/guidelines about living people and verifiability of information. GiantSnowman 18:24, 22 November 2023 (UTC)