Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sedra Bistodeau
OK, I've just watched the Twin Cities Television clip "Sedra Bistodeau and Sally O’Reilly" http://www.mnoriginal.org/art/?p=2346.  It's about 5-1/2 minutes -- well worth watching, even if you find yourself still on the "Delete" side of this discussion at the end.  I'll go out on a limb and say that this is a  "published work" (see the note that says the category is "deliberately broad") in  terms, and that it yields, together with the newspaper piece already mentioned, the "multiple, non-trivial published works" on the subject that are required by .  Despite the title, the video is unmistakably about Sedra primarily, in terms of screen time and spoken content.  Since Prof. O'Reilly is Sedra's violin teacher, one might question the objectivity of her commentary in this piece; since Sedra speaks at length on screen, one might wonder whether it's too much a primary source.  It is not, however, a self-published work.  I retract my quibble above about the "Artist's Bio" section of the introductory text.  I suspect that the emphasis O'Reilly gets in the text might have been mainly motivated by Minnesota state regulations about justifying use of taxpayer funds in promotion of the arts.  After all, Sedra is unquestionably performing for popular entertainment as well as practicing "serious" music, but Minnesota Original styles itself an "arts and cultural" organization, and is partly tax-payer funded, as is the university at which O'Reilly works.  Minnesota Original may have strained a little to draw the public arts-support connection in this case, on the web; TV-only viewers wouldn't have noticed and wouldn't care if they did, probably, but perhaps readers on the web might forgiven for being a little confused, as I was at first.  As O'Reilly puts it, Sedrea "straddles" the popular and serious genres.  That Sedra  does it so well is, of course, a good part of what makes her remarkable in the first place, and I rather doubt that many people today except those affiliated with University of Minnesota's music department would know of Prof. Sara O'Reilly had it not been for Sedra and this video on local public television.  As far as I'm concerned, this makes the case that Sedra was the true '''subject''' of this work, and that her popularity was the motivation for producing it.  I am not, however, an expert on the application of  by any means, and would be interested in other interpretations and precedents for those interpretations
— User:Yakushima, 13:57, 23 January 2011 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:RS||WP:MUSICBIO||WP:MUSICBIO||WP:MUSICBIO (Wikipedia:Reliable sources)