Talk:Duck Baker

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I don't know much about Duck Baker, just that he should have an entry on Wikipedia. I don't know much about Wikipedia either. Therefore anyone with better knowledge of either (date of birth for a start) feel free to mess up my effort.

Contents 1 the non-non-notability of Duck Baker 2 Merge with Kicking Mule Records 3 Contra 4 No doubt

[edit] the non-non-notability of Duck Baker

I don't really have time to write an essay defending inclusion of Duck Baker in Wikipedia. If I did I would research and write a better page. Basically he's generally recognised by people who think about these things as one of the leading American fingerstyle guitarists. In this respect the criteria for notability are suspect. For example, the requirement that the musician "has had a charted hit on any national music chart, in at least one large or medium-sized country" means that Romeo Challenger, drummer with 1970s Teddy Boy band Showaddywaddy has a page.

Agreed, the page for Duck Baker is not good. My understanding of the organic nature of Wikipedia is that the page will be improved by people who know more about him than I do. Romeo Challenger's entry has one and a bit lines (not wishing to fixate on Mr Challenger, there are loads of equally undeveloped pages in Wikipedia).

There are currently three links to Duck Baker from articles in Wikipedia (not added by myself). This in itself suggests a need for there to be an article for them to link to. One of these links is from the entry for Kicking Mule Records, for whom he recorded five albums. Presumably therefore he would meet the criteria for notability which requires him to have "released two or more albums on a major label or one of the more important indie labels". Dw290 18:35, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Merge with Kicking Mule Records

The article doesn't make any claim for notability independent of Kicking Mule Records JASpencer 19:14, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Contra

As someone who's busy in both the English and the German Wikis I always had the impression that those 'notability' discussions by Wikipedians not knowing too much about the object they're talking about were a specific German approach ;-) Now I find the same thing going on here and - after having added a Duck Baker discography and a few other info to the article - would like the discussion to be ended (if you please): How can a musician who since 30 years constantly issues (and reissues) records and is praised worldwide by fellow guitarists as much as by his listeners provoke such a discussion ?!? (One little click towards his homepage - the link is given in the article - should convince every unsuspecting - or did I fail to understand this whole Wiki approach ? ;-) StefanWirz 08:30, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] No doubt

StefanWirz is absolutely correct. Go anywhere finger style guitarists gather and ask them. Duck is one of the most unique and accomplished artists in the field with the track record to back it up.Dalemi 20:19, 14 October 2006 (UTC)

Finally, common sense prevails. Dw290 12:41, 15 October 2006 (UTC)