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| = ARCHIVED WIKISPACES DISCUSSION BELOW =
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| '''All discussion below is archived from the Wikispaces export in its original unaltered form.'''
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| <span style="color:#800000">'''PLEASE MAKE ANY NEW COMMENTS <u>ABOVE</u> THIS SECTION.'''</span> Anything below here is for archival purposes only.
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| == Redundancy ==
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| I see an increasing amount of redundancy in the xenwiki. The content of this page, e.g., overlaps a good deal with the page "what is microtonal music".
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| I would like to suggest, once more, the principle "DRY".
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| - '''hstraub''' August 17, 2011, 12:46:30 AM UTC-0700
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| Wikipedia has both a microtonal music article and a xenharmonic music article. How's that for redundency. Anyway, I need to rescue the article from the clutches of Wikipedia.
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| - '''genewardsmith''' August 17, 2011, 12:57:43 AM UTC-0700
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| This is not Wikipedia. So it is absolutely not relevant how redundant WIkipedia is.
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| I still do not see the point in having overlapping stuff (e.g. concerning terminology) on different pages.
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| - '''hstraub''' August 17, 2011, 01:43:33 AM UTC-0700
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| It's a wiki, that's why there isn't a global concept for distributing information. Redundancy is not so bad as long as it remains within limits.
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| I think, The "DRY" principle wasn't designed for wikis - to just put this pointedly:
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| Wikis as communication platforms can hardly be more redundancy-free, as communication itself.
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| - '''xenwolf''' August 17, 2011, 02:28:06 AM UTC-0700
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| @hstraub:
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| ...oh I forgot: you are fully right:
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| Yes, thank God, this is not Wikipedia! :)
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| - '''xenwolf''' August 17, 2011, 02:30:16 AM UTC-0700
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| I don't give a d**n what DRY was originally designed for. This wiki has reached a size where keeping track of all the stuff in it is getting increasingly difficult. IMO, "DRY" is becoming more and more a sheer necessity.
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| And I still do not see what is the point of having two sections on two different pages dedicated to the various terms that are used instead of or additinally to "microtonal".
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| - '''hstraub''' August 17, 2011, 03:41:42 AM UTC-0700
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| Nobody hinders you the remove duplicated sections and build a new page from it.
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| One-pagers for external use can be made with the page inclusion facility that is available in the wikispaces software. try
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| - '''xenwolf''' August 17, 2011, 03:55:24 AM UTC-0700
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| But then Gene might have to rescue his article from some clutches again.
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| But i guess I will do so (at the risk of being called a drooling, slobbering moron, too).
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| - '''hstraub''' August 17, 2011, 04:13:34 AM UTC-0700
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| Since the Xenwiki is not written from a single point of view, I don't see how you can enforce a single source of truth. It makes sense to do so with definitions, but why with articles on topics like microtonality?
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| - '''genewardsmith''' August 17, 2011, 08:58:49 AM UTC-0700
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| Your section on terminology apparently has already the claim of covering the existing multiple points of view, mentioning the terms microtonal, micro-intervals, macro-interval, ultra-chromatic, infra-chromatic, xenharmonic.
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| There is a section on another page with obviously the same aim, mentioning the terms microtonal, macrotonal, also xenharmonic (with about the same definition as in your article), neoteric, non-western, alternative tuning, metachromatic, ekmelic.
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| What's wrong with combining these two articles into one that lists all the terms? What's wrong with that?
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| - '''hstraub''' August 17, 2011, 11:43:51 AM UTC-0700
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| Alright, alright - I will leave your article as it is and jus tput a link to it on http://xenharmonic.wikispaces.com/DefineMicrotonal .
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| But I will fix some if the links.
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| - '''hstraub''' August 17, 2011, 11:32:12 PM UTC-0700
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