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Genre choice

I reverted Cburnett's change of "contemporary American musician" to "folk American musician" for a few reasons. First, contemporary means "still alive" in addition to a type of music. Second, Stuart's music is no longer anything like folk. Go listen to "Doppelganger Body Donor" and tell me he's folk. His music now contains elements of folk, punk, rock, pop, haiku, prog rock, etc. Calling him a folk musician is simply untrue. --goethean 14:47, 4 May 2005 (UTC)

I changed it back to folk music (you're summary didn't explain why this part was changed) before reading this. Perhaps the best choice here is instead of pigeon holing him into a genre, leave off the genre and say his music "contains elements of folk, punk, rock, pop, haiku, prog rock, etc". How bout that? Cburnett 17:34, May 4, 2005 (UTC)

great idea. --goethean 17:41, 4 May 2005 (UTC)

Mmmmm, much better. Cburnett 17:45, May 4, 2005 (UTC)

grammar

Which is better:

"He has been performing throughout the United States and Europe for over a decade."

Or:

"He has performed throughout the United States and Europe for over a decade."

--goethean 18:28, 4 May 2005 (UTC)

The latter makes it sound like he's dead. Like he *has* performed and won't do it anymore. Whereas "been performing" sounds more like it's contual, still happening, and still plans on doing it. Cburnett 18:48, May 4, 2005 (UTC)

"Wizards"

I pulled wizards from the list of "cool good things Stuart's lyrics contain" because including wizards on the list displays a profound lack of understanding of any of the songs in which he mentions wizards. "She said some ugly wizard/stumbled into her room/dropped his gown/waved his wand around/and brought some bruises into bloom" is hardly the sort of Gandalf-like figure that including "wizards" on that list implies.

Photograph

I am not familiar enough with wiki to replace the photograph of Stuart Davis, but I'd love to see a better portrait if anyone has one. Or perhaps wiki would allow one of the official promo photos from the artist's website (since those pics are made available for exactly this sort of function)?

Discography

Should the "Notable Works" section be reformatted in the typical "Discography" layout that other musician's entries use? The descriptions are valuable and should be preserved, but, the format of the section seems to be unusual.

Short Film Starring Stuart

I don't have a solid understanding of what would qualify to add under Stuart's TV, Video, and Other Media, but perhaps a short film he recently starred in might. I also didn't want to post it because it was a film I directed and wrote. However, it was for a film festival in Boulder and the film won an award, placed in the top ten, and was screened at Boulder Theater. The film is titled, "Love's Invitation", in which Stuart plays the lead role. Currently it is listed on the festivals home page The Shoot Out 24 Hour Filmmaking Festival Boulder and the video can be seen here "Love's Invitation". Anyways, just wanted to through this in the discussion in case it was relevant. If not, no worries. --Ryanoelke (talk) 03:50, 5 October 2009 (UTC)

This is not a fan or promotional site

I removed the reams of completely unsourced ecstatic promotional material here about the wonders and genius of Stuart Davis. This is not the place for that stuff, folks. Find sources, and the page can be expanded. Until then, leave it to sourced material.Tao2911 (talk) 16:41, 12 July 2010 (UTC)

You blanked 80% of the article. That's not editing, that's vandalism. Please don't do that. — goethean ॐ 18:27, 27 July 2010 (UTC)

WP guidelimes state that if we find unsourced biased promotional material we are to actively and aggressively act to remove it. I worked on this page for hours, and reduced it to what could be verified and sourced, even adding links and sources, in keeping with figure's stature and available material. Of which there isn't much beyond subjects own wesbites. I didn't "blank" content. I removed all your gushing unsourced fan boy prose.Tao2911 (talk) 22:34, 27 July 2010 (UTC)

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