Hej, Arle, I totally agree. And I did not intend you to have the Black Pete (does this metaphor work in English? In our region ³Black Pete² is an children¹s card game...) re-working the wikipedia site. My remarks were more or less meant that somebody should do it... And I see that probably it IS like you described the behaviour of the ³Metallcia fans².
Best, Uli Am 13.10.10 10:46 schrieb "Arle Lommel" unter <[email protected]>: > 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 ³playing a gurdie¹s keys from underneath² seems to be a Hollywood >> pattern. Spotting the hurdy-gurdy in Ridley Scott¹s ³Robin Hood² (at least to >> see in the longer director¹s 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 ³Leierkasten² what mens of course - >> ³barrel organ². >> >> So I am not really d¹accord 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 it¹s story located in the medievals ³more >> historically correct²? >> >> Regards, >> Uli >> >> >> >> >> Am 13.10.10 02:45 schrieb "Arle Lommel" unter <[email protected] >> <x-msg://7/[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] <x-msg://7/[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.
