Duplicate Pages for a Work

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Marc Cerisier
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Duplicate Pages for a Work

Post by Marc Cerisier »

In submitting a new edition of The Call by Vaughan Williams, I discovered there are two separate pages for the work:

http://www3.cpdl.org/wiki/index.php/The ... _Williams)

http://www3.cpdl.org/wiki/index.php/The ... _Williams)

I'm relatively new to CPDL (from an editing point of view), so I'm not sure if I'm allowed to combine them and mark the extra for deletion, or if an Admin needs to do that.

Thanks,
Marc
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Re: Duplicate Pages for a Work

Post by carlos »

Hi Marc, thanks for your new edition and for bringing this to our attention before taking any action.

Usually, when there are two pages for a single work, merging them is the way to go, taking care to do the merger on the oldest of the two pages. You may ask assistance from an admin for that, but this is not strictly required if you feel confident enough about doing it.

But in this case specifically, the edition on the first of the two links you posted contains just a hymn setting with no text underlay. Because of that, I'm more inclined to think that they should remain on separate pages. But this is just my opinion, others may disagree. Let's wait for a third opinion, ok?
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Richard Mix
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Re: Duplicate Pages for a Work

Post by Richard Mix »

The usual procedure is to add the template {{merge}}, or, when the choice of target page seems obvious, {{MergeTo}} and wait a little bit to see if someone pipes up with reservations.

The Call is an odd case: both pages were created by the same editor http://www3.cpdl.org/wiki/index.php/Use ... nry_Fowler and the intent seems to have been to distinguish between the 4th of the 5 Mystical Songs and the much simplified hymn tune THE CALL (in category:Hymn settings, erroniously I think), intended for congregational singing. It would have been nice and simplified the disambiguation if CPDL had adopted to convention of all caps for Hymntunes.

A further complication is the unsettled issue of subpages for single movements of larger works: the song could then be moved to a new page for Five Mystical Songs.
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