Ulrich, While I sympathize with your position, I feel like fighting the tide of ignorance may be a bit like trying to bail out the ocean with a teaspoon. However, just because I don't want to do it doesn't mean others should not, and I'd be very happy to be proved wrong. My point merely was to explain that that article was deliberately created (by me) as an escape valve to help drain the constant flow of crap being added to main article. Since its creation I've looked at it maybe twice and I've tried to keep the link unobtrusive so that more people don't see it.
Technically, by Wikipedia standards the article should not exist at all, but people insist in putting stuff like "Metallica used hurdy-gurdy in one of their songs. Metallica rulez!" into the lead paragraph on a regular basis (and persist in reinserting it when removed) unless you give them a place to dump it. -Arle On Oct 13, 2010, at 10:15 , Ulrich Joosten wrote: > Dear all, > > the “playing a gurdie’s keys from underneath” seems to be a Hollywood > pattern. Spotting the hurdy-gurdy in Ridley Scott’s “Robin Hood” (at least to > see in the longer director’s cut) being played from underneath made me feel > pissed. The German subtitels of the score writer (not sure if that was this > guy ore somebody else) mentioning the hurdy-gurdy made me even more angry > because hurdy-gurdy was translated as “Leierkasten” what mens – of course - > “barrel organ”. > > So I am not really d’accord to Arle if we should not react regarding the > wiki. Do we really want that music of industry ignorants can display a > (probably) hungarian gurdy played with trompette (dubbed by Nigel Eaton) in a > movie pretending to show it’s story located in the medievals “more > historically correct”? > > Regards, > Uli > > > > > Am 13.10.10 02:45 schrieb "Arle Lommel" unter <[email protected]>: > >> That recordings page was created to give every idiot who felt compelled to >> write that <insert semifamous person here> once <choose one:thought >> about/played/looked at/dreamed about/heard about> a hurdy-gurdy a place to >> put down their fevered scribblings. Before that was created, these people >> kept defacing the main article with their insatiable appetite for insipid >> trivia. >> >> So I din't think it's worth wasting time on cleaning up that article in any >> way since its sole reason for existence is to keep that crap from being >> dumped into the main HG article. >> >> Just my two cents, but thought you might care to know why that stupid >> article exists in the first place. >> >> -Arle >> >> >> On Oct 13, 2010, at 01:36 , [email protected] wrote: >> >>> A bit embarrassing, I think. Especially the point where Sting is attributed >>> to having played one on the Oscars, and that one is played by the Tom Hanks >>> character in Polar Express (no mention of the hand playing it from >>> underneath). >>> >>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recordings_featuring_the_hurdy_gurdy >>> >>> At least the article on the gurdy itself is good... >>> >>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurdy_gurdy >>> >>> Mitch Gordon >>> Guerneville, CA, US > > -- > Ulrich Joosten, Nettergasse 35, 41539 Dormagen, Tel. 02133-210900 > [email protected] > [email protected] > www.gambrinus-folk.de > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "hurdygurdy" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/hurdygurdy > > The rules of posting, courtesy, and other list information may be found at > http://hurdygurdy.com/mailinglist/index.htm. To reduce spam, posts from new > subscribers are held pending approval by the webmaster. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "hurdygurdy" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/hurdygurdy The rules of posting, courtesy, and other list information may be found at http://hurdygurdy.com/mailinglist/index.htm. To reduce spam, posts from new subscribers are held pending approval by the webmaster.
