Talk:Traditional square dance
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Where are these communities in the U.S. and Canada that have traditional square dances? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.190.166.162 (talk) 16:34, 16 October 2007 (UTC)
- Most of them don't have a Web presence. The dances tend to be in rural areas, frequented by locals who aren't necessarily looking for new dancers from outside the community (though they're likely to be polite to outsiders). I'm not sure a Wikipedia article is the right place for a detailed directory of local dances, but I'll look for some Web mentions of trad square dances and add links here if I find any good ones. Tparkes 18:05, 22 October 2007 (UTC)
- I've added several links to sources of trad square dance information. I plan to expand this stub into a full-scale article as time permits. The main challenge is sourcing: I've read extensively on the subject (as well as talked with many practitioners over the years, and practitioned more than a bit myself), but Wikipedia requires statements to be sourced, and many of my key books and magazines are in dead storage. I know what I want to say, and I have backup for the statements that are most likely to be questioned, but I can't lay my hand on chapter and verse at the moment. I'm looking forward to working on this, as most of what's readily available in print and on the Web about square dance history is total fabrication (as any real folklorist will tell you). It's not necessarily false, but there's no proof that it's true. Tparkes 17:02, 2 November 2007 (UTC)
I just removed a link (added by an anonymous user) to an article that compares traditional and modern Western square dancing. The article is written from a blatantly modern Western POV and contains incomplete and misleading information on trad dancing. I was emboldened to remove it when I discovered that the same user (or someone at his/her IP address) had made a long series of edits to the modern Western square dance article that bordered on vandalism. Tparkes (talk) 19:14, 7 January 2008 (UTC)
