User talk:Derek Ross

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Hello Derek

Thanks for the additions re the Scottish Lowlands article. I was aware of the northeast but was trying to simplify (or oversimplify?) things. It's good to have someone contribute who's actually lived there!

Bruce, aka Agendum 22:45, 20 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Nice of you to say so, Bruce. In my turn, I'd like to thank you for adding the article. I'm always pleased to see people contributing articles about Scotland and I hope that you continue to do so. Many more are needed. Also, congratulations on deciding to become a "named" editor! I hope that you get as much enjoyment out of contributing to the Wikipedia as I have. -- Derek

Hi Derek, I put some minor additions into your article on Henry George. randall_burns@yahoo.com

Feel free Randall. That's what Wikipedia is all about. -- Derek

Hi Derek. With regard to our discussion of the acuity of translations on Laocoon, I just heard the following quote: "Translations (like wives) are seldom faithful if they are in the least attractive." (from South African poet Roy Campbell) [1]. How true. -- Finlay McWalter | Talk 20:48, 9 Feb 2004 (UTC)

<grin>, I can't argue with that! -- Derek

Hi Derek,

I would like you to consider undoing the changes you made to the irish dancing page. You put everything in the context of "step dancing" and did a re-direct. I have made comments on the step dance talk page as to my concerns. If you do a google search on step dancing it will lead you to pages that discuss "irish dancing". Please consider the other following points:

Dance schools are named Trinity school of Irish Dance, O'Hare school of Irish Dance, World Academy of Irish dance. They teach dance as developed in ireland and still taught there today. The world commission I titled the World Commission of Irish Dancing. I do not know anything about scottish dance traditions, however when I have seen shows where scottish dance is demonstrated it is clearly different from the irish dance that I know. If you will look at the history of the irish dance page, you will observe that much of the content of the page was developed by me, with suggestions from others as to additional materials which could be included. The focus I developed for the page was for irish dance, not dance done in ireland, or dance styles which have roots common to irish dance.

In summary, I really object to the change in focus of the article and the re-direct. Please change it back. Addition of a link to another page with discusses commonalities of irish and scottish dance traditions would be perfectly appropriate, but I am not qualified to write such a page, I am sure others are.

greybeard 16:53, 11 Feb 2004 (UTC)

The Scottish dance which is normally demonstrated is Highland dancing, or less commonly, set dancing. Scottish step dancing is rarely demonstrated, since it is social rather than competitive, so you are unlikely to have seen it outside a Scottish ceilidh. However I have certainly attended ceilidhs at which it has taken place, so I can assure you that it exists and that it is fairly similar to Irish step dancing with a more relaxed upper body posture. If, as you are suggesting, you have developed the article to discuss Irish dance used as a technical term for Irish step dancing, then you should remove the discussions of set dancing and other non-step forms from within the article since it leads to confusion about the subject matter of the article. People who are unfamiliar with the technical meaning of the term will think that the article is about all forms of dance in Ireland, or worse will think that step dancing is the only type of dance, danced in Ireland. -- Derek

Hello Derek My name is Kirk. I'm in Vancouver. I've written a contribution on Justin Timberlake's album Justified (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justified_(album))

Its my first contribution, and I'd like to know if its passable. I think it might contain some really unneccesarry context, but I'm not sure (Michael Jackson's legal problems among other things.) If you could take a look, I'd really appreciate it. I'm not a huge fan of Mr. Timberlake but I'd like to contribute more album reviews in the future if this would be useful (or indeed welcome). I'm just finding my way around Wikipedia so be gentle. I'll check the old "Discuss this page" page to see if you've had the time. Thanks. -- Kirk (Feb 12-04 3:24pm pst)

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