Talk:One Love Peace Concert
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[edit] Proposed Deletion
I do get "about 17,500 English pages" when I google for the concert and the content here is valuable. Perhaps a merger (with what though?) is more appropriate than a deletion. Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. (talk) 17:29, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
- I believe the One Love Peace Concert is notable enough for Wikipedia, but there is no info in the article about why the concert is important. It was the biggest reggae event of the 1970s, featuring most of Jamaica's then biggest stars (Dennis Brown, Jacob Miller, Peter Tosh, Bob Marley). The concert is also a politically significant event in the history of the country. Thanks to the concert a peace treaty was concluded between the island's two political parties' "political enforcers" (i.e. gunmen) that brought an end to several years of street warfare and murder in Jamaica. The OLPC was also amongst both Bob Marley's and Peter Tosh's most memorable live shows, in Marley's case much because of him brining together party leaders Michael Manley and Edward Seaga on stage, when their two parties were in what could really be described as a state of undeclared war; in Tosh's case due to the highly controversial speeches he gave. The concert was also recently included in a list of the "ten greatest rock gigs". [1]
- I agree that the article is seriously lacking in its current state, but in my opinion the subject itself is notable enough to be included in Wikipedia. Unfortunately I'm quite busy at the moment and don't really have the time to fix and add stuff to the article, but I still think it should stay. Teklund 21:20, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Merge
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Will request merge with Bob Marley.--200.32.222.2 04:34, 3 December 2006 (UTC)
Oppose, Why redirect to Bob Marley and not other articles? SqueakBox 11:54, 3 December 2006 (UTC)
- Why redirect at all? I think for everybody who knows a little bit about the history of Jamaican music kowns about the importance of this concert. Not musically but as a point where politcs have been made by using music. Thus this article should remain! --Reinhard P. Braun 19:35, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
