Talk:List of dance companies

message: Margaret Jenkins Dance Company—Preceding unsigned comment added by Robertgreer (talk • contribs) 15:02, 25 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  to do  

message: Please do not add dance schools to this page. This listing is for dance COMPANIES! Also, I have spent a long time trying to unify the formating. Please look at the other listing and make your additions look the same and do not   a word unless you are sure it links to Wikipedia. I will remove excessive red links. Thanks! THDju (talk) 22:32, 12 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  FYI 

message: Hello all -
I understand that everyone wants to add companies or information to this page. It would be a heck of a lot easier on all of us if we have some ground rules and style points. I am open to suggestions but I am going to lay these out based on how the page has flowed.
First, submission rules -
 -This page is for dance companies. Please do not add dance schools. A company with a school attached, okay. 
 -Please cite the company. Wikipedia is not a dumping ground for information. It is a researched site that accepts information on NOTABLE organizations and people. There must be some information on the internet (reliable information) about the organization. Please cite this when you post a new group. If you are posting a historical company (prior to the internet) but you have information on notability in print, please cite that as a reference.
Okay, now style points -
 -It goes  
Company, Style, Based in city/region, Country, Founder/Artistic director (AD)/Choreographer, Active 
 -Please list the company's full name
 -Please do not   wiki link it unless there is a current page for the company. We do not want red links.
 -Do not make up a style. Please use a term that is understandable. Also, please don't discuss what kind of shows are produced. We are looking for the style of dance. I.E. ballet, contemporary ballet, modern, African, belly, Broadway, theatre, Native American, Christian, performance, etc. You get the idea. You don't need to put the   to wiki link unless it is the first time it appears on the page. Every time ballet is listed doesn't need to be blue linked.
 -Please list the city and state and   wiki link it. UNLESS it is NYC or another city that is mentioned a lot. Only the first occurrence should be linked.
 -Please list the country but do not   wiki link it unless it is the first time it appears on the page. USA doesn't need to be linked 700 times.
 -Please list the Founder/AD/& choreographer like this -
   Founder Bob Smith
   AD Suzie Jones & Karen Marks
   Choreographer Bob Fosse
 -Only   wiki link them if they have a page (remember, no red links!)
 -If it is a strange listing modify based on the formula. 
   I.E. Founders & ADs Bob Smith & Karen Marks
 -NO dashes, no colons, no nothin' between the word "founder" and the name (same for AD or Choreo)
 -Active - Please list the years like this: 1992-present 
  - No spaces between the dash
  - Lower case "p"
  - If there are odd details to the dates (see Aspen Santa Fe) list that in ( ) after the date.
Just a few last notes -
 On some computers, the lines of the tables don't show up unless every box is filled. I know sometimes we don't have exactly all the information so I suggest adding a period (.) to that box. Hardly noticeable and keeps the integrity of the table.
 Remember!!! Don't add someone who isn't notable (I know you love your childhood ballet teacher but you can't just add her to the Encyclopedia Britannica for fun. There has to be rules here.) and be sure to note where you found the info with a reference.
 Remember!!! Limit the red links!!! Don't   unless you are sure they are on Wikipedia and even then, be sure it links to the right person. There are many people with similar names in the world. 
Thanks all! This will really help keep this page clean and usable as a resource.  THDju (talk) 22:29, 27 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ground rules for editing this page 

message: What about New Jersey Ballet?
74.105.193.227 (talk) 14:18, 17 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  NJB 

message: Is it agreeable with all concerned to hold a combined discussion of these related proposals to merge List of modern dance companies and List of contemporary dance companies into List of dance companies on the talk page of the last named? — Robert Greer (talk) 03:40, 20 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  proposed merger of [[List of modern dance companies]] and [[List of contemporary dance companies]] into [[List of dance companies]] 

message: list of dance and ballet companies
Company                                     	Style                	Based in city/region     	Country      	FounderArtistic director (AD)Choreographer                                 	Active
Balé da Cidade de São Paulo                 	contemporary         	São Paulo                	Brazil       	Jonhy FranklynAD Mônica Mion                                               	1968–present
Ballet National de Marseille                	ballet               	Marseille                	France       	Founder Roland Petit                                                       	1972
Balleteatro Nacional de Puerto Rico         	ballet               	Guaynabo, Puerto Rico    	United States	AD Miguel Campaneria                                                       	
Ballet Preljocaj                            	contemporary ballet  	Aix-en-Provence          	France       	AD Angelin Preljocaj                                                       	
Egyptian Modern Dance Theatre Company       	modern               	Cairo Opera House        	Egypt        	AD Walid Aouni                                                             	1992–present
Giordano Jazz Dance Chicago                 	jazz and contemporary	Chicago, Illinois        	United States	Founder, Gus Giordano, AD, Nan Giordano                                    	1963-present
Hip-Hop Dance Conservatory Repertory Company	hip-hop              	New York City            	United States	Artistic Director Safi A.ThomasAssociate Artistic Director Yasmine Fequiere	1994–presentone of the only professional repertory companies for the art-form of hip-hop dance in the United States (edit summary of moved entry)
Margaret Jenkins Dance Company              	postmodern           	San Francisco, California	United States	Founder Margaret Jenkins                                                   	1973–present
Seán Curran Company                         	modern               	New York City            	United States	Founder Seán Curran                                                        	1997–present
Possible entries for which a company page is needed. --Mirokado (talk) 19:56, 12 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  To do  

message: I will remove the multi column alphabetical headers. They relied on a "clever" use of class="sortbottom" to push them to the end of the table once it was sorted, but this was not the intended use of sortbottom as we can see from Help:Sorting#Excluding rows from sorting. A subsequent update to the sorting code has broken this table, with all but the first such row pushed to the end of the table even before it has been sorted. In any case having all those headings display at the end of the table after sorting was not entirely satisfactory.
I will leave the A-Z targets for the contents list attached to the first item for each letter. This may be an occasional maintenance issue, but is probably better than nothing. --Mirokado (talk) 17:00, 18 November 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sortability