Talk:Alexander Goldscheider

Conflict of interest
The primary contributor of this page is User:AGRR, who has self-identified as the subject. Previously, AGRR created a page Goldscheider, Alexander, which has since been speedily deleted per WP:COI and WP:Notability. The user has now been warned twice about his conflict of interest violations. &mdash;Akrabbimtalk 21:43, 16 November 2009 (UTC)
 * I have also tagged the page Terezín: The Music 1941-44 for the same reasons, since Goldscheider produced it. &mdash;Akrabbimtalk 21:47, 16 November 2009 (UTC)

I believe that an article on Alexander Goldscheider as well as on Terezín: The Music 1941-44 deserve their place on Wikipedia.

The 2-CD set was the first ever release with music written and performed in a concentration camp. It was a "CD of the Year" in 1991 in a UK magazine CD Classic, it had the highest marks in other CD magazines, including Gramophone, CD Review, Opera in the UK and in many music magazines around the world. Above all, it acquainted the world with the fact that music still played its part in unthinkable circumstances in concentration camps, and it opened up the doors for dozens and dozens of similar releases that followed, with Sony starting a whole series on Entartete Kunst, and Naxos, Channel Classics and other companies again releasing whole series of CDs. My Terezin CD set also contained the children's opera Brundibár, again completely unbeknown until this release, which has since been staged, televised, filmed, played on major festivals, in major opera houses, as much as in numerous schools, colleges and universities around the world. There are now books, TV programmes, films, plays, operas, even institutions on the subject of Terezín and other concentration camps and the music. Wikipedia, too, has articles on Brundibár, as much as on the composers that were again completely unknown until my 2-CD set, namely Gideon Klein, Hans Krása, Viktor Ullmann and Pavel Haas, and I cannot see a single reason why my pioneering release should be removed from Wikipedia, where it has just a minimal mention, anyway, and if anything, it deserves more. I produced and released the 2-CD set entirely on my own, partly as my late father and his family went through various concentration camps, including Terezín, and I had first hand information and access to materials from other inmates as well. It sold, by the way, over 15,000 over the years, which is a record amount for a 2-CD set with classical music, let alone with such connotations.

Aside from the Terezín 2-CD, I had 2 solo albums and 1 CD (composed, performed, produced by myself) released by Red Bus Music in London with further 3 commercial CD releases through my company, Romantic Robot. Among these, the CD "An American in Prague: Aaron Copland Conducts Czech Philhramonic Orchestra" was again met with the highest acclaim back in the 1990s, whilst "Stabat Mater" and "The Song of Songs" contain my music and I shall refrain from praising them myself. I also wrote and write music for radio, TV and films.

There is a completely different side to the article on myself, that relates to my company Romantic Robot, which in the 1980s successfully designed and manufactured computer software and hardware. Wikipedia has again articles on some of the products, namely Multiface, Videoface, Wriggler, which sold in tens of thousands and won repeatedly all possible accolades in their time. I co-wrote and co-designed virtually all items for the company. There are over 320,000 hits on Google on just these 3 lines of products - please refer to the article Terezín: The Music 1941-44 where I list all the Google references specifically.

There is an article on me in the Czech Wikipedia, as I was born and lived in Prague for 31 years, where I had a successful career as a music critic, radio DJ, composer, performer and producer. My PhD thesis on the music of the Beatles was one of the first proper analysis of rock music world-wide in 1975.

I understand there is a conflict of interest as Wikipedia does not favour self-written articles. There are numerous people who would write an article on me from their various viewpoints, but I felt, given my multi faceted activities and achievements, that I was best placed to write a summary myself, adding relevant references and external links. I certainly tried to be neutral throughout and just list the facts. I did not contest the first deletion, mainly because I was ill at the time, but on this occasion I feel that it would be unfair, if the article on the Terezín: The Music 1941-44 CDs as much as on myself, were to be removed from Wikipedia.

I hope I am placing this on a correct page, please correct me if it should be done any differently. Thank you. AGRR (talk) 23:16, 16 November 2009 (UTC)