Problem: musicians all over the world are competing with each other. They are sometimes doing interesting things but do not have the funds to have a PR department, like the bigger bands have. This creates the idea that only big, rich music groups are relevant, while it also takes away possibilities for starting and unknown bands.
Who would benefit: These starting and unknown bands would now be able to point at a wikipedia entry, which makes them visible and more relevant. It may not be the taste of millions but the field of live music entertainment is diverging into smaller clusters.
Proposed solution: a new category 'unknown music bands' in where they can share their bio, and music, so as to be more visible to the world. I really hate it when I hear 'we're not going to include your 'garage band' and have to give in to the demand that my relevance is connected to the number of publications (a very contemporary view in the science industry) while these media are owned by a tiny group of people whose taste may or may not be similar to that of these unknown bands. Take them out of obscurity!
More comments: Most media are converging their views, thus excluding interesting developments as the shovel guitar, or cigarbox guitar, or home made electric cello. This of course also has economic effects: if my pages constantly get pulled, my PR is as well failing.
@Basvossen: Thanks for your proposal, but this is a content-related proposal and not something relating to technical software development, and so is out of scope for the Wishlist Survey. I'll move it to the archive. —SamWilson00:40, 26 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]
