User talk:BSE Wolf

List of organ scholars at British universities and colleges
Hello, BSE Wolf. I have reverted your changes to the List of organ scholars at British universities and colleges, which added back various names. This is for a variety of reasons. Firstly, you will see at the top of that page that there was an attempt to delete the list, and the consensus view was that the contents should be (appropriately) merged to organ scholar. The names worth transferring across to that article have already been moved across from the list. Secondly, I say "the names worth transferring across" deliberately - one of the concerns of the deletion discussion was that the list of organ scholars was full of people who did not satisfy the requirements for Wikipedia of notability i.e. they could not have a valid article written about them. This is especially true for current and very recent organ scholars - let alone future organ scholars, as in some sections of the list - who simply aren't notable yet. If, of course, they end up being notable, someone can write about them in due course. So I went through the list and pruned it, removing all those without articles unless there was mention of a subsequent post as a cathedral organist/director of music (not simply an assistant organist, or cathedral organ scholar, or organist of a parish church), or some other position that made it sound as though a proper article could be written about that person in due course. And, thirdly, save for one name that had an article, the names that you added had absolutely no sources - no proof using reliable sources that these people ever existed, let alone were organ scholars or when they were organ scholars.

I hope this explanation makes sense. FWIW, I am myself a former organ scholar, though at Oxford not at Durham, and if my own name had been on the list, I would have removed it as well. Regards, BencherliteTalk 21:21, 23 April 2009 (UTC)