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I have removed a great deal of text from this article:
Many of the footnotes are self-published (for example,this, this and this.
***The above are not self published. They are published by the owners of the respective sites.
Many of the footnotes are purporting to support statements about Bar-Niv, but in fact make no mention of him. For example, this reference to Ron Shulamit conservatory simply points to the conservatory's website, and does not confirm that Bar-Niv actually studied there.
***The footnote was there to show the existence of the school. I was instructed to stop editing this page before ***I could enter a citation from the following book, published in September 2010 by the Ron Shulamit Conservatory (P.O. ***Box 43179, Jerusalem 91431 Israel). The book has 2 attached CDs "Centenial Recordings, Notable Graduates" that include ***recordings by Perlman, Mintz, Bar-Niv, and others.
This book is a hard copy one. Book's name: "100, Ron Shulamit Conservatory, For the next hundred years...".
The book has no page numbers and everything appears twice, once in Hebrew and once in English.
The double page titled "Notable Graduates" includes photos and biographies of Perlman, Mintz, Bar-Niv, and others. The ***following is what it says about Bar-Niv:
"Rami Bar-Niv, Pianist
Born in Tel Aviv in 1945, Rami Bar-Niv began his studies at the Ron Conservatory, later graduating from the Rubin ***Academy of Music with honors. Recipient of many prizes and scholarships, he won the America-Israel Cultural Foundation ***Competition and was awarded a scholarship to further his studies in the United states. He graduated with honors from ***Mannes College of Music in New York under renowned teacher Nadia Reisenberg. He won numerous competitions and embarked ***upon a successful concert career, performing regularly throughout the world. He is often sent by the Foreign Ministry ***as an ambassador of goodwill in concerts overseas. To date, he is the only Israeli artist to perform in Egypt following ***the signing of the peace treaty."
Bar-Niv's book is self-published, as are many of his compositions. When his book is accepted by a recognized publisher, we can add it back in.
***What is wrong with self-published? That a "notable" publication is not robbing you of your money...?
Self-publications are acceptable anywhere nowadays. As a matter of fact 2 (raving) reviews of my self-published book ***are to appear in May 2012 in 2 very respectable and "notable" publications.
I removed a lot of fluff. The fact that his father is a comptroller for the Ministry of Defense seems a bit over the top.
***If Personal life is "fluff" then it should be removed from all other Wiki pages. If Personal life is an important section of a page, it should be here just like anywhere else.
Just an additional note: this article has been edited by three different accounts, all of whom have edited only this article or other articles relating to Rami Bar-Niv. It is a reasonable suspicion that these accounts are sockpuppets for Bar-Niv himself. I suggest that these accounts establish themselves as bona fide editors by devoting time to improving other articles, before they take it upon themselves to make additional edits to this article.
***This is more than a suspicion: you are here to destroy rather than to build.
