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Anthropology: Oral tradition

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Section sizes

Section size for Folklore (26 sections)
Section name	Byte count	Section total
(Top)	2,062	2,062
Overview	4,838	4,838
Origin and development of folklore studies	5,616	5,616
Definition of "folk"	3,926	3,926
Folklore genres	3,138	25,387
Verbal tradition	4,634	4,634
Material culture	6,007	6,007
Customs	5,919	5,919
Childlore and games	4,892	4,892
Folk history	797	797
Folklore performance in context	3,372	19,346
Backstory	2,330	2,330
Tradition-bearer and audience	2,615	2,615
Framing the performance	1,724	1,724
In the subjunctive voice	896	896
Anderson's law of auto-correction	2,375	2,375
Context of material lore	1,797	1,797
Toelken's conservative-dynamic continuum	1,710	1,710
In the electronic age	2,527	2,527
See also	434	434
Notes	31	31
References	35	10,787
Bibliography	10,752	10,752
Further reading	11,026	11,026
Further reading	169	169
External links	301	301
Total	83,923	83,923

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Requesting wider attention

I felt article Islamic_literature is in bit of neglect so I added my note on talk page there, requesting to take note of Talk:Islamic_literature#Article_review. If possible requesting copy edit support. Suggestions for suitable reference sources at Talk:Islamic_literature is also welcome.

Posting message here too for neutrality sake

Thanks and greetings

Bookku (talk) 08:03, 21 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Redundant

All too much of this article mirrors content in Folklore studies and seems to be less about the subject of Folklore itself than what folklorists think about it and its importance, starting with the "Overview". Some of this should be cut and the article focused more on the subject than those who study it. Manannan67 (talk) 21:31, 17 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Manannan67: I tend to agree. On the whole, the article is far too long-winded and non-encyclopedic in style. I also object to the overuse of bold to pick out specific keywords, which is certainly not recommended – MOS:NOBOLD clearly states that italics are the preferred option. Rodney Baggins (talk) 21:47, 13 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Massive recent change

Regine April B. Lausan made a sweeping-change edit [1], with an edit summary stating "I have added some customary lores, added some on the history of folk, added references for further reading and lastly paraphrased some." But this added no new sources at all, just two "External links" entries (one an organization homepage, the other a reading list; neither them are usable in the article as sources of any kind); removed a lot of sources and material cited to them; removed numerous citations while curiously leaving material reliant upon them alone otherwise; added a large number of claims and new lists (misformatted as blocks of one-line paragraphs) based on those claims, without any sources for any of it; and drastically changed the nature of several sections. The only kinda-constructive thing I can see in any of that was removing the unnecessarily detailed paragraph about Ireland in particular, which really doesn't belong in this article. Many of the new claims do not appear to be wrong on a cursory examination, but this is an encyclopedia, not someone's blog, and they don't get to just write what's on their mind without backing it up, much less also get to do violence to well-cited material already present.

If someone doesn't beat me to it, I'm of a mind to revert this completely, unless someone has good reasons not to (e.g. evidence that the removed sources were faulty) and is prepared to properly source everything added in the new version, and defend (one by one) the sourced statements that were deleted. — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼 23:06, 13 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Since no explanation or defense of these changes has been forthcoming I have reverted them [2]. — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼 22:08, 14 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Who is Aladdin

Fully details 117.53.41.26 (talk) 07:45, 11 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Wikiproject

Would anyone be interested in joining a wikiproject on oral tradition? Kowal2701 (talk) 15:46, 25 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]