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Comment: This article is linked to in hundreds of articles because it is the standard way to describe the voices of a choir, for example SSATTB for a choir of two soprano sections, one alto ... - Example:
Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern, BWV 1. - This article needs to exist, not be a red link to these hundreds of articles. If a redirect, what do you think about to where? --
Gerda Arendt (
talk)
08:27, 19 March 2022 (UTC)reply
This is the professional way to describe a vocal scoring. Look at publishers' information, for example
Polish Requiem, about the first thing you want to know about a choral piece: which voices? In this case SATB soloists and two SATB choirs. Most people will already know that without an explanation, but obviously several look it up regularly.
Another term in your example is "mixed choir" which I decided to throw into the Wikipedia url bar. It brought me to
Choir#Types and gave me a brief explanation of the concept. Surely SATB can function the same way. I think
SATB could simply be re-directed to a section on some article that has a brief explanation of SATB. There already (sort of) is one at
Choir#Types. I'm sure a short section could be added to
Four-part harmony (that article needs to be basically re-written anyways). A small section on any other of the related harmony articles would probably be suitable too. —
Mcguy15 (
talk,
contribs)
14:36, 19 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Except that this is a notable term used by music theorists and music publishers alike. While in its current state the article is nothing more than a expanded definition, there is definitely a considerable amount of research published about SATB.
Why? I Ask (
talk)
12:45, 19 March 2022 (UTC)reply
It is a notable term, but I can't see evidence for it being a notable concept, or thing in its own. ("Encyclopedia articles are about a person, or a group, a concept, a place, a thing, an event, etc. ") Would you mind providing some sources to verify this? —
Mcguy15 (
talk,
contribs)
14:19, 19 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Keep, as I see no good way of a redirect. Four-part harmony is not it, because it is a term also for single voices (in a larger work, singing after another) and seven-part harmony, for example. Compare the Schott listing. --
Gerda Arendt (
talk)
09:15, 21 March 2022 (UTC)reply
I'm not happy because this is not only for four parts, just the opposite: a convenient way to shortly describe other combinations, such as the typical
Handel SSATB. We do need something to explain to readers who can't guess from the context. Also, that article is also under a deletion discussion. --
Gerda Arendt (
talk)
13:02, 19 March 2022 (UTC)reply
I know that
four part harmony is currently listed, and I vehemently oppose it. I suppose you're right that SSATB and other configurations exist, but could those not be mentioned on the
Choir article instead? I wouldn't mind keeping this page either, but merging and preserving the article's history seems to be best for now.
Why? I Ask (
talk)
13:18, 19 March 2022 (UTC)reply
A reader who wants to know more about what SSAATBB stands for is served badly with a link to Choir, also it's used for the soloists as well. This concerns more than 1000 articles, so any change should be done with care, if at all. I don't see a problem with what we have. --
Gerda Arendt (
talk)
13:22, 19 March 2022 (UTC)reply
The terms would be referenced in a section of the of the
Choir article (most likely
Choir#types), and a redirect could be made to that specific section. A straight up copy of the text in the SATB article to the Choir article would suit me just fine. More pressing is the issue of the potential deletion of
four part harmony.
Why? I Ask (
talk)
13:48, 19 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Keep. It's a good topic and likely search term. Yes, it should probably be a redirect to a broader article. But deleting it and its history will not improve Wikipedia. This is part of a rash of related AfD nominations that stand not just to discourage knowledgeable editors, but to make Wikipedia a laughing-stock among those we most want to recruit to improve the pages.
Andrewa (
talk)
04:21, 21 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Keep. The proposed redirect would just make life needlessly hard for people trying to figure out what SATB is about and would affect thousands of articles for no discernible purpose (and redirects to article sub-headings have a nasty tendency to break). I especially agree with what
Andrewa said.
Atchom (
talk)
19:26, 21 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Comment I absolutely commend the editors who have improved the article since the listing of the AfD, bumping it from the 1-reference unsourced mess it was before. But, these additions don't change the fact that the article's topic doesn't pass
WP:DICDEF. The new additions are mostly sourced from music publisher listings and not secondary sources, evidently failing
WP:WORDISSUBJECT. The new additions would make a good section in the (also newly-rejuvenated)
Four-part harmony or
Choir#Types. —
Mcguy15 (
talk,
contribs)
22:50, 25 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Where do think our readers should find the information which is linked in more than 1,000 articles? It's used also for more complex settings than four-part harmony. --
Gerda Arendt (
talk)
09:25, 26 March 2022 (UTC)reply
As previously mentioned, the link would be redirected to a section in a different article, and all of the currently present information would be added. The readers would still find the information and the links would still work due to the redirect. —
Mcguy15 (
talk,
contribs)
14:06, 26 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Keep: Clearly we need a centralised place for the information which would otherwise have at least in part to be duplicated somehow in 1000 or so articles. This is one of the main points of a wiki - the ability to link to a single, thus consistent and maintainable, source of some widely relevant content and related background. Although music parts and articles designed for musicians don't normally need to explain SATB, as a standard term of art, we must do so for our general readership. An argument for merging could be that a lot of content would otherwise be duplicated in this and the target article, but nobody seems to be suggesting that. Just moving the content to a separate section in another article seems pointless information hiding. --
Mirokado (
talk)
12:44, 26 March 2022 (UTC)reply
The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's
talk page or in a
deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.
The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's
talk page or in a
deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.
Comment: This article is linked to in hundreds of articles because it is the standard way to describe the voices of a choir, for example SSATTB for a choir of two soprano sections, one alto ... - Example:
Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern, BWV 1. - This article needs to exist, not be a red link to these hundreds of articles. If a redirect, what do you think about to where? --
Gerda Arendt (
talk)
08:27, 19 March 2022 (UTC)reply
This is the professional way to describe a vocal scoring. Look at publishers' information, for example
Polish Requiem, about the first thing you want to know about a choral piece: which voices? In this case SATB soloists and two SATB choirs. Most people will already know that without an explanation, but obviously several look it up regularly.
Another term in your example is "mixed choir" which I decided to throw into the Wikipedia url bar. It brought me to
Choir#Types and gave me a brief explanation of the concept. Surely SATB can function the same way. I think
SATB could simply be re-directed to a section on some article that has a brief explanation of SATB. There already (sort of) is one at
Choir#Types. I'm sure a short section could be added to
Four-part harmony (that article needs to be basically re-written anyways). A small section on any other of the related harmony articles would probably be suitable too. —
Mcguy15 (
talk,
contribs)
14:36, 19 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Except that this is a notable term used by music theorists and music publishers alike. While in its current state the article is nothing more than a expanded definition, there is definitely a considerable amount of research published about SATB.
Why? I Ask (
talk)
12:45, 19 March 2022 (UTC)reply
It is a notable term, but I can't see evidence for it being a notable concept, or thing in its own. ("Encyclopedia articles are about a person, or a group, a concept, a place, a thing, an event, etc. ") Would you mind providing some sources to verify this? —
Mcguy15 (
talk,
contribs)
14:19, 19 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Keep, as I see no good way of a redirect. Four-part harmony is not it, because it is a term also for single voices (in a larger work, singing after another) and seven-part harmony, for example. Compare the Schott listing. --
Gerda Arendt (
talk)
09:15, 21 March 2022 (UTC)reply
I'm not happy because this is not only for four parts, just the opposite: a convenient way to shortly describe other combinations, such as the typical
Handel SSATB. We do need something to explain to readers who can't guess from the context. Also, that article is also under a deletion discussion. --
Gerda Arendt (
talk)
13:02, 19 March 2022 (UTC)reply
I know that
four part harmony is currently listed, and I vehemently oppose it. I suppose you're right that SSATB and other configurations exist, but could those not be mentioned on the
Choir article instead? I wouldn't mind keeping this page either, but merging and preserving the article's history seems to be best for now.
Why? I Ask (
talk)
13:18, 19 March 2022 (UTC)reply
A reader who wants to know more about what SSAATBB stands for is served badly with a link to Choir, also it's used for the soloists as well. This concerns more than 1000 articles, so any change should be done with care, if at all. I don't see a problem with what we have. --
Gerda Arendt (
talk)
13:22, 19 March 2022 (UTC)reply
The terms would be referenced in a section of the of the
Choir article (most likely
Choir#types), and a redirect could be made to that specific section. A straight up copy of the text in the SATB article to the Choir article would suit me just fine. More pressing is the issue of the potential deletion of
four part harmony.
Why? I Ask (
talk)
13:48, 19 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Keep. It's a good topic and likely search term. Yes, it should probably be a redirect to a broader article. But deleting it and its history will not improve Wikipedia. This is part of a rash of related AfD nominations that stand not just to discourage knowledgeable editors, but to make Wikipedia a laughing-stock among those we most want to recruit to improve the pages.
Andrewa (
talk)
04:21, 21 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Keep. The proposed redirect would just make life needlessly hard for people trying to figure out what SATB is about and would affect thousands of articles for no discernible purpose (and redirects to article sub-headings have a nasty tendency to break). I especially agree with what
Andrewa said.
Atchom (
talk)
19:26, 21 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Comment I absolutely commend the editors who have improved the article since the listing of the AfD, bumping it from the 1-reference unsourced mess it was before. But, these additions don't change the fact that the article's topic doesn't pass
WP:DICDEF. The new additions are mostly sourced from music publisher listings and not secondary sources, evidently failing
WP:WORDISSUBJECT. The new additions would make a good section in the (also newly-rejuvenated)
Four-part harmony or
Choir#Types. —
Mcguy15 (
talk,
contribs)
22:50, 25 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Where do think our readers should find the information which is linked in more than 1,000 articles? It's used also for more complex settings than four-part harmony. --
Gerda Arendt (
talk)
09:25, 26 March 2022 (UTC)reply
As previously mentioned, the link would be redirected to a section in a different article, and all of the currently present information would be added. The readers would still find the information and the links would still work due to the redirect. —
Mcguy15 (
talk,
contribs)
14:06, 26 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Keep: Clearly we need a centralised place for the information which would otherwise have at least in part to be duplicated somehow in 1000 or so articles. This is one of the main points of a wiki - the ability to link to a single, thus consistent and maintainable, source of some widely relevant content and related background. Although music parts and articles designed for musicians don't normally need to explain SATB, as a standard term of art, we must do so for our general readership. An argument for merging could be that a lot of content would otherwise be duplicated in this and the target article, but nobody seems to be suggesting that. Just moving the content to a separate section in another article seems pointless information hiding. --
Mirokado (
talk)
12:44, 26 March 2022 (UTC)reply
The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's
talk page or in a
deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.