Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ashwin Batish


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was   keep. Voceditenore is correct; NPOV failure is not generally a reason to delete an article. Shimeru (talk) 00:56, 14 May 2010 (UTC)

Ashwin Batish

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Fails WP:NPOV Jacotto (talk) 04:57, 6 May 2010 (UTC)
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 * Keep Failure to adhere to a neutral point of view is no reason to delete an article. It's a reason to fix it. The subject seems quite notable to me, and that's what the decision should be based on. See:
 * Performing ethnomusicology: teaching and representation in world music ensembles by Ted Solís, p. 128
 * Option, review of Ashwin Batish • Sitar Power II: "Sitar player Batish has followed his Sitar Power album with a sequel that further shows his ability to take the instrument around the world with only an occasional guitar or ..." 1995
 * Jazz Times, review of Sitar Power II: "on which sitarist Ashwin Batish goes every way but traditional. He slathers on garrulous sequenced riffs and rock- tinted drum machine tracks, guitar overdubs by himself and David Harnish and cheeky Western musical notions ..." 1995
 * BATISH BRINGS BACK THE SITAR, Boston Globe, Oct 25, 1988
 * |DN&p_theme=realcities&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EB29C2D1BB3DFD2&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM WORLD BEAT BOP ON A SITAR MUSICIAN ONE-MAN MUSICAL CARPET RIDE, Philadelphia Daily News, March 1, 1989
 * MUSIC INTERVIEW From India, a Fresh Pop Sound, Christian Science Monitor, Mar 15, 1989
 * Biography in the All Music Guide

– Voceditenore (talk) 15:44, 12 May 2010 (UTC)
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