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Please only add musicians to this list if their articles have references showing that they are considered "fiddlers". Add the names alphabetically to the top table, and again in the appropriate genre table. Please add to the article, not the talk page unless you have something to say about the fiddler that doesn't belong in the article.
if no one objects, I'll split this into "Fiddlers (by region)" and "Fiddlers (alphabetical)" lists and update the template. new additions will have to be added to two artices, but template links seem a more appropriate place to chose which list you want
After we all fall off the same cliff, will there be a way, right there where they will see it, to alert future stewards of the 'pedia to this need for double entry? This is the sound of me not objecting... Just plain Bill02:47, 10 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I've asked the bot writers if they can help us out - I'll hold off on the split for a week or two to see if anyone takes an interest -- Eitch17:04, 16 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Notable recorded fiddlers from Fiddle article[edit]
This section is comprised of content yanked directly from the Fiddle article, which has no business being a mirror of this article. Those truly relevant should be incorporated into this article. My personal preference would be to only include those notable enough to have a Wikipedia article – no red links – rather than everyone who ever rosined a bow. If a redlink deserves it, create the article. --Kbh3rdtalk20:15, 26 October 2007 (UTC)''[reply]
For a more comprehensive list of fiddlers, see List of fiddlers; for a list of All-Ireland Fiddle Champions, see Fiddle champions.
Fiddlers from Fiddle article - sections already entered
convert to categories? and, which categories?[edit]
Now and then over the past months I've made a couple categorizing edits that I then go nowhere with. Here's my proposal — if we can agree on something, we can all start doing the edits:
1. I think the content of this article could all be better done in categories, except for the redlinks. So I think we should make sure every one of the bluelinks is categorized, remove them from the list, and retitle the article "Fiddlers who need articles."
2. Then we need a system of categorization. There's already
where each fiddler is put in a nationality and a genre category. That's good, but I think it could be nice to expand this to
Fiddlers
Fiddlers by genre
Genres
Nationalities
Fiddlers by nationality
Nationalities
Genres
with each fiddler put in a nationality and a genre category, and a genre-within-nationality and a nationality-within-genre subcategory (so you click on "bluegrass" and see an alphabetical list of all the bluegrass fiddlers and a list of country subcategories). That would be useful if you wanted to compare the sound of a certain genre across countries — so you could easily get the names of, say, Scottish fiddlers from Scotland and Scottish fiddlers from the U.S. Now, I myself have been known to take an article out of a parent category if it's already in a child category —it runs against the "folders" metaphor, and seems redundant— but I think that in this case it would really add information.
Note that some of these are being discussed on WP:CFD. Having a list is not a reason to create a small number of categories and a large tree that serves no apparent navigation need. Also the lack of comments here is not an indication of support. Vegaswikian (talk) 19:42, 30 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Please do put in a word at the discussion Vegas mentions [Edit: That discussion hasn't been touched for months, and it's really a place for current deletion proposals. This article talk page is the place to have this discussion, for now.] (here's a link). Basically, I started categorizing fiddlers because this list has a bunch of problems (see the linked discussion for more on that). Now every fiddler in the list (as of the June 3 2008 version [Edit: Brought up to date for the July 13 2008 versionSept 25 08.]) has been categorized! I didn't go as deep-structured as I suggested above - it's mostly
Fiddlers
Fiddlers by genre
(genres)
Fiddlers by nationality
(nationalities)
In the course of that, I double checked every fiddler in this list against their article…
Many were mis-filed (they'd be listed here as bluegrass, but the article would explain that they rock) - in all cases of that, the article was convincing, and I followed the article.
I didn't make a "jazz fiddlers" category, since there's already a "jazz violinist" category which (I checked) includes everyone in the "jazz" section here.
I put articles in the folk fiddlers list in more informative categorizations (as of this writing, there still are some fiddlers categorized only as "folk").
Some were bad links - I collected those, and they (along with a very few fiddlers I don't know how to categorize) are listed on my list of fiddler redlinks. My thought is that we can list all the various redlinked articles which have come and gone from this list there.
Exceptions to the structure:
Following Old-time music, the old-time fiddlers category has subcategories for Appalachian style, non-Appalachian south, Texas, and Western swing. As the number of fiddler articles grows, we can add a Midwest subcategory.
It is community consensus that lists and categories should co-exist. Editors should not favour one and try to delete the other, this is considered disruptive. See WP:CLN. --neon whitetalk14:10, 14 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Not every topic has both a category and a list. Encouraging discussion shouldn't be considered disruptive. This list is full of misinformation --many fiddlers listed here are misfiled; some genres are misnamed (e.g. "Argentinian," "Old-timey")-- and as a list is dysfunctional --the American subgenres are not alphabetical; genres and subgenres overlap in unsystematic ways (e.g. hot club independent of jazz; English independent of UK; folk, folk-rock, and traditional/rock). Certainly there's nothing wrong with having both a list and categories... But if we want to both reflect the information in the linked articles (as the categories do) and keep this list, a major overhaul is in order. — eitch19:05, 23 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I tried browsing the categories and I couldn't see the information on one page; it was inconvenient. I think the list should be kept. However, the page is a bit confusing the way it is laid out with locations mixed in with styles. What about a sortable table? The reader could then arrange the info to suit him or herself. —Anne Delong (talk) 09:39, 20 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
SherryLN(talk) has been adding Sierra Noble to this page. Quite possibly this fiddler is notable enough to merit a Wikipedia article, but it doesn't exist yet. I have asked the user to consider creating such a page before adding the link again, without response. It is possible that the user feels bitten and does not care to talk about it. I do not think this needs admin intervention just yet. Perhaps someone else would care to drop a friendly word on the user's talk page? Could use a little help here. __ Just plain Bill (talk) 22:08, 8 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
I have made a sortable table of fiddlers for the top of the page. Users can sort by name, nationality or main fiddling style. This eliminates the need to make a section "Fiddlers by nationality"
The section "Fiddlers by style" needs fixing up. Some of the American categories are dubious, but I don't know enough about this to make the changes. —Anne Delong (talk) 05:03, 22 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
