Choral Public Domain Library

Thank you for your comments, Barry. Since a tune name doesn't indicate the text to which the tune is to be sung, since many tunes have been used with more than one text, and as we have the established principle (which I don't think we should change) that settings of different texts, albeit to the sa...

Further to our previous discussions (and discussion at http://www.cpdl.org/wiki/index.php/Talk:The_Continental_Harmony_%28William_Billings%29 ), I've tried to draw this together into some proposed page naming conventions. What do you think of these? Editors are of course free to title their editions...

For preference, I'd only include tune names in page titles if needed for disambiguation - I'm in favour of trying to keep to the shortest unambiguous page titles we can, and adding tune names when we only know of one setting of a text by the composer seems an unnecessary complication. If we're looki...

Thanks for starting this discussion, Barry. Re the names we give to pages, I'm much more in favour of using the form: First line of text (Composer name) where we are only aware of one setting of the text by the composer, and First line of text (Disambiguation) (Composer) where we know of more than o...

Thanks for setting it up - that's fine. I've added a section to the page with the template {{LyricistSettingsList}}, which we usually include on lyricist pages, and which generates an automatically-updated list of all the works marked with {{Lyricist|Thomas Thurman}}.

Regards,
Edmund.

Looking at http://www2.cpdl.org/robots.txt , it seems that crawler access is not permitted to the visitor sites, but looking at http://www.cpdl.org/robots.txt , there is coding to limit crawler traffic, but not stop it altogether (thus reducing the server load). Given that the contributor site requi...