User talk:Music Row

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STACY'S MUSIC ROW REPORT
Are you the Stacy Harris described in the article? —Matthew Brown (T:C) 06:51, 8 December 2005 (UTC)


 * I have placed this article in Articles for Deletion. This is because as it stands right now, STACY'S MUSIC ROW REPORT is simply a PR statement, not an encyclopedia article.  I can't see any evidence it is important enough to warrant an encyclopedia article in any case - which does NOT say that it isn't - rather that the content you placed in it doesn't really help us determine that.  Please give us some more information to help us decide that. —Matthew Brown (T:C) 07:02, 8 December 2005 (UTC)

The requested content was provided and submitted. I think I can speak for the others. We don't want to rewrite it. But you can check for it in your records of posts as regards this resource that challenges the Music Row publicist-driven hierarchy that, in turn, drives a largely lazy rip-and-read media.

We've never heard of you, Matthew, no disrespect intended, so it's ironic that you have the authority you do to rule on the importance of a subject you don't seem to know very much about. But, however you feel about it- and you have indicated you might be open-minded- we rely on the Report to get the truth about what's going on in Nashville and on Music Row. There's just nobody else who is doing this, except maybe Skye Rivers at countrynation.com.

If you aren't aware of the importance of Stacy's column, check the search engines.

If you don't care or are not persuaded by Stacy's CV or the media, fans, and courageous industry members whose kudos fill the associated pages of her Report, then the exclusion reflects more on you and, as Wiki's "friend" John Seigenthaler (who knows Stacy well, by the way, her having appeared on his program and having been a part of many of his programs at the Freedom Forum First Amendment Center) would confirm, the credibility of Wikipedia than on Stacy who, as an author, broadcaster and contributor to magazines and newspapers, had a national following even before she gained a worldwide following, with the advent of the Internet. 65.1.218.164 06:09, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

I agree. Look at the ZoomInfo entry for Stacy Harris. I forget the URL but you can Google it. Anyway, it may not be authorized, but some independent company (ZoomInto) or, in some cases, even accurate, given that Stacy Harris is such a common name, but the article that the Musicians Union (AFM) did on her in printed in full (using the link on the Zoom Into page) and you can see that by that article alone this savior of Music Row has accomplished so much that she deserves to be in Wikipedia. 170.190.40.78 19:32, 30 September 2006 (UTC)

I think the page is actually called ZoomInto. But yeah, I agree. The entry for Stacy Harris does include that wonderful interview that Sylvia conducted with Stacy for the Nashville Musician. 170.190.40.78 18:58, 14 October 2006 (UTC)

It is ZoomInto. The Nashville Musician interview with Stacy Harris was quite interesting. Wonder why it hasn't been reprinted anywhere (else). 72.154.193.107 04:29, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

As I understand Matthew's reasoning, he deleted the original entry for Stacy Harris and Stacy's Music Row Report for two reasons: He doesn't follow country-music and Music Row politics (so he  doesn't know how valuable Stacy's reporting is to those of us who find her insider's take on the usual spoon-fed stuff refreshing), plus he thought her report was found only on Geocities. (Matthew says Geocities is a "free" site. He has a problem with free sites, he says.)

Perhaps Matthew was going by a search engine ranking the day he formed his opinion. If he had checked further (search engine rankings fluctuate fairly regularly) Matthew would know that most of us read Stacy's Report on roughstock.com before she moved on to countrymusicreport.com.

Neither of these- and many Geocities business sites for that matter- are available for free. So if  Matthew doesn't like to see Geocities sites in Wikipedia - including the paid sites- he should also check the ownership of stacyharris.com

http://www.bmi.com/news/entry/232788

72.154.193.73 01:27, 23 August 2007 (UTC)

Mr. Brown could also check countrymusicreport.com. And the search engines. Not sure is these are paid placements or not, but they sure rank high for most of the country music categories Stacy Harris writes about.

http://www.countrymusic report.com

http://www.countrymusicreport.com/Stacyharris.htm 170.190.40.78 21:16, 25 August 2007 (UTC)