User:Frank Renner

I notice that stuff from pre Internet time gets sometimes neglected on Wikipedia, some Wikipedia writers show a disregard for historic events, subjects and this creates a landscape open for manipulation and self-righteous bravado. The story of Phenomena is such a case. Looking at the Wikipedia history of Phenomena, it has taken 3 years to get the story reasonably right and all because some Wikipedia writers clearly did not like Phenomena, or might even have had a hidden agenda, some others rejected the project on grounds of no published records being available. It was also not helped by the fact that some of the writing I contributed, and I admit that I know the Phenomena project from its invention, was not up to Wikipedia standard. However, instead of experienced editors reworking style and grammar, they very often simply questioned the relevance. Several times it was claimed by experienced Wikipedia editors that Phenomena did not have any relevance at all, pushing for deletion to the point where they even refused to just look at existing album releases and involved musicians and producers records. This carries on from Phenomena's Wikipedia entrance to highly relevant reference pages such as Concept Album, where authors did not bother to research published records showing that Phenomena indeed had cover story relevance in the 1980s with leading heavy metal magazines such as Kerrang!, Metalhammer and many others reporting on this concept album project and its innovative lead as it was far ahead of its time, already including its own feature film, videogame and musical stage show. Now 25 years later, it has become the inspiration for many successful similar but new project as stated on Avantasia's website.