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Collins, Jeff Berlin, Marcus miller, Michael Henderson(of Stevie Wonder and Miles Davis), James LoMenzo (of Megadeth), David Pastorius etc have commented on his bass playing skills. In the meanwhile, I am surprised to see that there are hardly few Indian guitarists in WP, though there are many great players. Please consider this article to be retained. Thanks --
918:. Since it is an uploaded materiel, I donāt know if you will reckon it. These are not live now in the internet. And so many such news articles were there in different news papers in 2008 and it was also featured in Indian TVs(But I have no proof for that). I believe these news items were alive in the internet during the detailed discussion in this matter following the 1st nomination of the article for deletion. And that might have been one of the reasons why the article was kept safe after the discussion.
650:. I believe that this was the strategy the users/administrators adapted in making the article to the present neutral position after a similar discussion in 2008. The man in the article is very much notable in the international world. The user who translated it in to Italian language may be knowing more, coz he seems to deal with musicians (Bass Players) articles. I do not want to go deep in to it anymore. And let the administrators decide the future of the article in question. Thanks a lot my friends.--
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511:(This was copied and pasted from this page, which says Ā© Copyright Guinness World Records 2009 at the foot. Pasted here as a fair use quotation.) Self-published and not Guinness verified. The Guinness 'Find a Record' takes you to a Google search, where this 'community' article was at the top. I can't see this as being any different than just Google searching. If you want your article to survive, you need reliable independent references, not blogs, forums, or indeed any self-published stuff.
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1000s of amazing guitar players. But around 10 are only listed in WP and the only bass guitarist's name Jayen Varma is also to be deleted now. Is this discrimination!! I hope you will look in to it again take any decision. I wanted to translate more, but just one is more than enough for me (since my time is now lost to establish even the original article). All the best to you all --
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