User talk:Chaos3737

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Re Ed Smith (Vibraphonist)
Thank you for contributing this article. We do get many articles on musicians. We can't keep them all, so we established some notability thresholds. Ed Smith seems an accomplished person, but apparently not notable enough to meet WP:NOTABILITY, specificially WP:MUSIC. Therefore I have removed the article. You may appeal this, but unless you can dig up some newspaper or magazine stories or something about him, it won't help much... However, thank you again, and I look forward to your future contributions. Any questions, message me. Herostratus (talk) 06:39, 19 June 2010 (UTC)

Re re Ed Smith (Vibraphonist)
I posted this article proactively - although he doesn't have widespread name recognition right now, Malletech (a major percussion corporation) is in the process of developing mallets as his "signature" series: AKA, they have his name on them, and were designed by him. Since Malletech has a very limited but popular selection, Ed Smith is virtually guaranteed to become a big name worldwide. Also, he's probably the foremost expert on Balinese percussion in North America - no exaggeration. (and also, he's a professor at SMU). I really do think you should reconsider your deletion.


 * Wikipedia is not for things that may become 'famous' in the future - we only have articles on things that already have significant coverage. Please read WP:VRS. If it gets more coverage in the future, then - at that time - no problem creating an article.  Chzz  ► 16:55, 19 June 2010 (UTC)