Talk:Jason Eady

Lede
The text removed from the lede is extraneous and far from neutral. What Texas country music is is explained in the article Texas country music; it is not necessary to explain what a style of music is on the page of every musician who plays in that style. Saying he "is regarded as an important figure" is WP:WEASEL language. Calling it "classic country" is WP:PEACOCK, "bent on" is in no way neutral language, and portraying the movement as a "return to singer-songwriter roots" imposes an implicit point of view about what current (non-"classic") country is and how it has putatively erred in straying from some past paragon. All of this material is justifiably jettisoned. Chubbles (talk) 18:10, 13 January 2018 (UTC)


 * I don't think there's an implied moral judgment on current country in saying texas country is an attempt to return to singer/songwriter roots—and it seems helpful to specify the genre rather than forcing people to click through the link. How is the change as a compromise?NoahB (talk) 19:52, 14 January 2018 (UTC)
 * "Classic" is an inherently non-neutral term - it is value-laden. If you want to explain what Texas country music is, the lede should describe the style in relation to the artist, not give a general overview of the genre - we should say how Eady evokes Texas country specifically. (By the same token, we wouldn't explain a genre in general in the lede for a screamo band or a chiptune producer or a soul jazz artist - the hyperlinks are there to guide the reader to that information.) I dug up some sourcing and rewrote the lede in a way that hopefully demonstrates what I mean. Chubbles (talk) 04:32, 15 January 2018 (UTC)
 * New lede works for me; thanks!NoahB (talk) 15:38, 15 January 2018 (UTC)