User talk:42.147.210.206

July 2021

Hello, I'm Mojo Hand. An edit you recently made to Over the Hills and Far Away (traditional song) seemed to be a test and has been removed. If you want more practice editing, the sandbox is the best place to do so. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. Mojo Hand (talk) 15:09, 31 July 2021 (UTC)

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Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did with this edit to Over the Hills and Far Away (traditional song). Your edits appear to be vandalism and have been reverted or removed. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Repeated vandalism can result in the loss of editing privileges. Thank you. SunDawntalk 15:22, 31 July 2021 (UTC)

・Why is it considered vandalism when all I did was connect England trad folk song with the England trad folks song database?42.147.210.206 (talk) 15:33, 31 July 2021 (UTC)

Hello - I think I misunderstood what you were trying to accomplish, and I see that you were attempting to make a helpful contribution to the article. However, it appears that the article at Over the Hills and Far Away (traditional song), covers several different songs, not just the one listed at Roud Folk Song Index #8460. Mojo Hand (talk) 15:42, 31 July 2021 (UTC)

According to this page, https://mainlynorfolk.info/martin.carthy/songs/overthehills.html Over the Hills and Far Away (traditional song) is definitely listed as number 8460 in the Roud Folk Song Index . This database doesn't fit one lyric and one melody to one number but combines related melodies and lyrics into one number. please listen to this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bs07OvqXp4 .To improve the Wilipedia page about English folksongs , this edit is meaningful . 42.147.210.206 (talk) 16:23, 31 July 2021 (UTC)

I'm not very familiar with the Roud index, but the link at mainlynorfolk.info suggests that versions of the song are listed at Roud 3098 and 8460. The Wikipedia article also refers to other apparently completely unrelated songs. I don't see that adding one Roud index number is particularly helpful to the Wikipedia article. Mojo Hand (talk) 16:45, 31 July 2021 (UTC)

maybe, i think you confuse Over the Hills and Far Away (disambiguation) and Over the Hills and Far Away (traditional song) .I did not suggest to add link of "roud" on disambiguation page which includes no relation songs with round database .At least , trad lyrics on Over the Hills and Far Away (traditional song) are involved in roud database(https://mainlynorfolk.info/martin.carthy/songs/overthehills.html) . Other english trad song`s pages like high germany and Spanish Ladies have also link of roud .I just tried to put a link like this pages or is this edit method wrong ? will you remove the links on these two pages as well?42.147.210.206 (talk) 17:18, 31 July 2021 (UTC)

Clearly I misunderstood what your initial edit was trying to do, and adding Roud numbers to British traditional songs is not a bad idea. However, I'm not sure it's a good idea in this specific article as there appear to be at least two songs with Roud index numbers (3098 and 8460) and the John Tams song being discussed. It's almost a second disambiguation page. I'm going to copy this discussion over to the article talk page, just in case anyone else has suggestions on this subject. Mojo Hand (talk) 21:43, 31 July 2021 (UTC)

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