Talk:Contra dance choreography

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[edit] References: sources and citations

It would be great to get citations to about five or so published books on contra dance choreography. Ted Sannella, Tony Parkes, and Larry Jennings come to mind as likely candidates. Also useful for the lead article too, to rescue the article from the eventual "no references" challenge. -- Yellowdesk 07:35, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Lead section

The Lead section seems too detailed to me. Its last 3 paragraphs could be moved to a new "Structure" (or "Structure of a contra dance") section to be placed immediately below the lead. A summary of that section could then be added back to the lead. This may or may not require re-thinking which part(s) of this article are used in Contra_dance#Choreography. Your thoughts? --rich<Rich Janis 10:11, 31 July 2007 (UTC)>

I'd say go for it, but I'd advise against "Structure of a contra dance…" — "form" itself is already a term made up for WP, and we don't need to muddy things even more. I'd say "Overview," if we had to give it a name, but you could just keep it as it is (without a title) and force the table of contents to appear above it.

Thanks, Eitch. Based on your first sentence, I'll look forward to working on this "real soon now". You've got me now leaning toward "Terminology", which I don't love, but think is appropriate enough. We'll see what fits when it's done, and if someone changes it, no biggie, but for the record I can't warm up to either "Overview" (because I don't think that's what it would be) or to leaving it nameless (I'm sure we can find some title that fits). Anyway, this is what I like about differing opinions, for you got me to think of alternatives. --rich<Rich Janis 02:14, 9 August 2007 (UTC)>

[edit] Contra Corners diagrams

Regarding the contra corners diagram in this article, and the more detailed diagram (linked from there), there is a discussion of issues and alternatives at the Contra Corners Diagram topic on the main contra dance talk page. --rich<Rich Janis 01:43, 9 August 2007 (UTC)>