Talk:Contra dance

message: There is a very long list of links under the section "Finding Contra Dances" that seems unnecessary and in violation of WP:LINKFARM as well as WP:ELLIST. I attempted to remove this months ago but apparently my edit was reverted. What are others' opinion of this section? PCChris23 (talk) 19:51, 11 March 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: It's absolutely no doubt 100% an egregious violation of WP:LINKFARM. The problem is that it's also fairly useful to have some sort of advice for people who come to WP looking to find a local dance, so a bit of WP:IAR comes into play. Still, many of the links aren't that useful or are outdated. My ideal would be for someone to go through the list, remove pretty much all the listings of dances other than CDSS's map, and take the essays on contra and work them into the article elsewhere as references so that they don't totally disappear. Sdkb (talk) 20:17, 11 March 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Oops! I was looking under External Links, not Finding Contra Dances. I agree with PCChris23. I am an avid contra dancer (3-4 nights a week + one weekend per month). I can see why crazies would think this is a good place to spread the word, but it's too much. The 3 links directly under "Finding Contra Dances" in External Links is enough for most purposes. I rarely need to go beyond contradancelinks.com when looking for local dances and weekends; even its section on "The Rest of the World" seems pretty thorough. I think a handful of the other links might become references, and the remainder should go away. Paulmlieberman (talk) 20:19, 11 March 2020 (UTC)

text: What would you think of an initial step of moving all of the Finding Contra Dances section to the External Links section, and then paring it down and using some links as refs? Paulmlieberman (talk) 20:30, 11 March 2020 (UTC)
replies: text:  User:Paulmlieberman I am a Wikipedia noob but I think that would be a very good first step and would look a lot better. User:Sdkb may have some thoughts as well? PCChris23 (talk) 20:33, 11 March 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: BTW, the addition of the "Finding Contra Dances" section was added anonymously on 24 Jan 2020. The section heading was added (also anonymously) on 30 Jan 2020.Paulmlieberman (talk) 20:38, 11 March 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  long list of links under "Finding Contra Dances" 

message: If anyone is inspired by this and wants to work on a page of their own for a contra dance, Chorus Jig would seem the next appropriate target, given its equal fame. I could send you the pages from Cracking Chestnuts for it, although it'd be on you to go from there. Cheers,  talk 23:09, 31 October 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: Suggested project: [[Chorus Jig]]

message: I've spent a little bit of time today trimming and generally tidying up the external links section (diff) but it's still pretty much a mess. In particular, there are still 23 links under "video and photography", of which 14(!) are simply videos of contras.  There are already five embedded videos of contra dancing in the article itself, so per WP:ELNO#1 we could probably cut all of these.  I've therefore boldly taken an axe to those here.  Five videos which are simply of contras are retained, selected on the basis of having reasonable video and sound and representing a variety of events, but my selection is somewhat arbitrary!  (A partial exception is this, which I have retained despite not having the best videography because it shows the dance being walked through, something none of the others seem to). Caeciliusinhorto (talk) 17:16, 23 May 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  External links