Wikipedia talk:Articles for deletion/Arkamo Rangers

holy christ Doomsdayer520, that's slander
Doomsdayer520 wrote "article's creator has exhibited a persecution complex" which is most clearly against wiki-sphere anti-hate rules. Further, there is increasing resistance to using psych as a weapon against people as the hate form, 'ableism.' Having 99% of a master's in psych w a 3.94 gpa, I am going to say that if this is who you are and how you communicate to get what you want, you should NOT be making decisions that affect others. And you should get help, please do. I am not kidding.

I have no time right now to pursue this issue, but I will. I have great projects incl raising my exceedingly-successful 7 yr old, but I WILL pursue this at some point - I have in the past and I won both times. (And of course, I would like to get through the masters to provide treatment- which I do anyway but on a social level, but not here.)

Further, I don't see evidence here of those attempting to delete the page having the ability to comprehend culturally-important music, or the ear to grok its musical meanings. If you can show evidence of this, please do and tell me why this music is insignificant in knowledgable terms, and I will accept your comprehensions. But, if not, as I assume you can't, then please understand that you are not qualified. The malicious and fake psych analysis is strong evidence that I won't see anything meaningful coming from you.

My previous experience with this type of deletion attempt was on the Allister MacGillivray  w similar statements (but w/o this level of malicious slander, which is actually something I have not seen at this level in my long time here). The only thing that saved the page is that MacGillivray got the Order of Canada, and the hopeful-deleter had to quit.

I contacted the band's former members and they have improved the page, so they will be unhappy too, and especially so when the see the insults. I did read some more of the above. Wow, you insult everybody! You just don't seem qualified.

As I said, I will pursue the hate statements when I find some time: guaranteed. --John Bessa (talk) 18:21, 10 August 2020 (UTC)

From Arkemo Ranger's Talk page:
"This band was significant and promoted music style incorporated into current Ozark culture. The fact that information here is not a repeat of information elsewhere is NOT a good criteria for information removal, as it will cause important information to be lost forever.  Their music quality and individuality is unquestionable and popular, but more significant the band provided a cultural basis for the micro-urban population of the otherwise culturally-bereft Springfield, MO.  Further, the lyrics give clues to rural youth culture which is important in the current crisis of conflict in the USA because the genuine moral and caring rural culture is being erased to be replaced with, and there is no other word to describe it, hate.

I wrote Allister MacGillivray 's page, and while I was writing it, it got deleted for similar reasons. (It is exceedingly difficult to write a page while another is bent on deleting it.) Now MacGillivray has the Order of Canada, and it cannot be deleted, thankfully. The desire to remove this page is similar, but there will be no order of canada to save it. Such is the USA, and, unfortunately, the wiki-sphere.--John Bessa (talk) 15:16, 8 August 2020 (UTC)" --John Bessa (talk) 18:21, 10 August 2020 (UTC)

Significance of name Arkamo Rangers
Rangers, for the most part, have a special place in the world protecting nature for the most part, and acting as police where there aren't any - doing a much better job (esp were I live as police are 2 hours away). The name Arkamo combines Arkansas and Missouri, which is significant because the Ozarks region is divided by an arbitrary border having a common, but disappearing culture. The band created a mythical region, the arkamo, and named themselves its cultural protectors as rangers.

The reason for cultural disappearance can be described in a word: development. Developers may or may not be local people, but the money and methodologies that are driving development are not. They are globalist and seek culture only as a profitable and transitory experience. Development destroys the genuine culture (which is ethical and moral basis) to replace it w a thematic alternative that lacks genuine human values. The band described this from their native perspective w expert lyricism, where the musical quality could not be touched. As I mentioned, attempting to erase this band from the wikipedia will serve to send native Ozark culture into further into the past. --John Bessa (talk) 19:06, 10 August 2020 (UTC)