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There is an RfC ongoing about a topic that contributors to this article may be interested in. It can be found here. JimKaatFan (talk) 15:05, 1 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Deletion of section(s)?

As I go through this article, I see that there are sections without due importance. The first is "First British Folk Revival." Why must it have a separate subsection, when the section above it talks about all revivals? Besides, the references are scarce, and if you were to talk about one in specific it would more than likely be 1940's onward due to it receiving way more coverage. Also, another thing I wish to mention is electronic instruments in folk music. It only makes the article longer (which it already is) without providing real value, in my opinion.-- • Apollo468• 20:37, 12 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I don't have a strong opinion either way on those and seeing the excellent work that you've been doing, I'd go along with the actions implied in your post. I do advocate strong "in practice" coverage and so would like strong coverage of folk music festivals that significantly include traditional folk music.North8000 (talk) 01:22, 14 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@North8000 Alright, thank you for your comment. I'm going to go ahead and delete the subsections mentioned tomorrow since it is rather late. I'll continue adding citations to this article - currently on Sri Lanka under Asia. When I'm done, I will try and attempt to help with that and expand the folk music festivals. Not a writer personally, but some of the sentences in this are rather choppy. Cheers,-- • Apollo468• 03:51, 14 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

This page appears almost in its entirety in a WordPress site

I was following a citation for research I’m doing, and instead of getting search results for the cited article, I found the link below. I have compared several sections of this Wiki entry and this WordPress page, and so far, the only difference I see is the WordPress site doesn't include a picture this Wiki page does. I don’t know if someone copied this entry for their WordPress site or wrote this for their WordPress blog, then copied and pasted it here (though I suspect the former; it just makes more sense).

I’m assuming this isn’t permitted, though I’ve never run into this before. I hope this was the right place to post this discovery.

https://violinsection.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/folksong.pdf SiobhanElizabeth (talk) 13:06, 19 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

This would need a source. It is at least as likely that Word Press lifted this article from Wikipedia, given that both sites are of almosr equal age.Sensei48 (talk) 13:51, 19 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I don't know the technicalities, but doing so is allowed and common.

I took a quick look just to get an idea of age. Sometime ending about 10 years ago I organized the article into two halves, which is the structure in the article that you linked. Then about 8 years ago during a long absence of mine somebody split those into two articles. So I think that that copy that you linked is in the ballpark of 8-10 years old. North8000 (talk) 14:31, 19 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I failed to answer the obvious question. It was created here in Wikipedia and then copied to Wordpress approximately 8-10 years ago. North8000 (talk) 18:43, 19 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Music

five aspects of a folk song 41.80.118.202 (talk) 10:09, 20 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Does anyone know what 'fishes in the water fishes in the sea' means?

I've been researching for a little while and I cannot seem to find the meaning behind this one line of the poem. 2A02:C7C:DD73:BA00:B8DB:8CA2:C4B:F371 (talk) 08:19, 12 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]