A: Performing arts editors who choose to add carefully selected external links documenting dance, singing and musical performance topics. Category:Performing arts pages with videographic documentation was created for Wikipedia by a "Veteran Editor" (10,000+ edits, 6+ years WMF) with background in the topic area including creation of many pages in the Roots Music category.
Q:What
A:A category which aggregates performing arts pages with videographic documentation on one page and links such pages with this talk page and such additional resources as the WP editorial community deems to link from this page or from the category page.
Q: When
A: You are cordially invited to assist as per the below To Do, or simply to make use of the linked resources for your research.
Q:Where
A: All Wikipedia mainspace articles which have either (a) named sections for video, audio links, "listening" or a designated external links section with linkage to such resources or
(b) all Wikipedia mainspace articles which have such links whether or not they have a designated subsection.
Q: Why
A: Some editors place numerous such links - perhaps, in excess; perhaps not - and other editors seem to believe that all such links are proscribed; however, there is no such proscription. In any case, a consistent, appropriate, evolving and flexible policy needs to be in place, and until such time as a detailed, nuanced and specific answer to that warrant issues from community consensus, it would be consistent with WP customs to avoid wheel warring and utilize dialogue rather than edit wars to develope a consistent, project-wide policy. And tertiary purpose is to apprise editors of other WMF and non-WMF projects in which a more profligate use of videographic documentation is permissible, such as for the purpose of conduction original research or synthesis.
There is no ban on use of video links. Unfortunately, some crazed deletionists seem like they have nothing better to do than vandalize WP articles under the wikilawyering pretext of enforcing some non-existent ban. This category is intended to help put an end to that once and for all. 00:29, 20 July 2011 (UTC)
Ready-to-use Edit Notice NULL & VOID This is an obsolete version[edit]
If you click Edit, you will have workable text you can paste into an article which uses legitimate videographic documentation. This Edit Notice warns against over-zealous deletionism based upon the misconception that youtube links are banned at WP.
Usable Edit Notice Version 2.0 Please use instead. If modify, please create new section and renumber as version 2.1 or 3.0 etc. ==
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Version 2.2 More polite, more concise, more qualified language. Unified two line phrases onto single lines where appropriate.[edit]
Revisions which merely add a line may be designated 2.x and edited in this space. Conceptual revisions should be enumerated 3.x and placed in a new section.
Version 2.2b of the Videographic Documentation Edit Notice (VgD EditNotice 2.2)
This link has commentary by an ethnomusicologist. Not all links are that solid but this is an example of a "good" link no one should quarrel with.GeoBardRap 03:06, 22 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
