Wikipedia talk:Articles for deletion/Band 'O Gypsys

Firstly, I am unable to find the article on Band 'O Gypsys anywhere, so I have no idea what it contains or what I contributed to it, and hence why I considered it to be sufficiently worthy of being included in Wikipedia, etc.

Secondly, I object to the wokeist, racist implications of this statement that the history of white South Africans should ignored and deleted: "South Africa has experienced massive cultural shifts in recent decades, and a bunch of old white rockers, alive or dead, and no matter how popular they once were (bearing in mind WP:NTEMP) simply wouldn’t have much of a mainstream profile in contemporary South Africa. Park3r (talk) 18:20, 30 June 2023 (UTC)".

Thirdly, you overly-enthusiastic Wikipedia editors from well-resourced countries need to understand that the resources that you take for granted are seldom available on the Internet for less resourced countries. While South Africa has better online resources than many other countries, it is still severely lacking. It is expensive and time-consuming to trawl through the official, newspaper and other physical archives to locate the sources that one would take for granted should be readily available on the Internet. If you feel that I need to do such research for this or any other article that I would like to contribute to, then you need to pay for my time at my standard charge-out rates.

Fourthly, while Band 'O Gypsys might not have been politically active, even though they were white they would have been considered subversive during the Apartheid years - as applied to many other musicians, etc. Thus, they would have had limited coverage in the mainstream media, even if they were considered to be legendary by concert goers. Further, their focus might have been on playing live and not on recording, because of the costs of doing so and the difficulties of being recorded if one was not mainstream, etc. Hence, their records would not have been reviewed, etc.

Fifthly, for what it is worth, I did see them play live in the mid-1980s, which would have been around their 25th anniversary. I also saw them a couple of times thereafter.

Finally, if Wikipedia is only for articles about rich countries, such as endless ones about minor American sportsmen, then I guess that I should give up on trying to contribute to Wikipedia and spend my time on something else where my contributions might even be appreciated. Drackles (talk) 17:39, 7 July 2023 (UTC)