Talk:List of cellists

message: Anyone enjoy alphabetizing? CDA 16:48, 1 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Needs Alphabetizing

message: Is there any reason why we should not replace this list with :Category:Cellists. It seems more work to maintain this list by hand than to add the category to the individual cellist pages. Though I suppose this list does encourage people to write articles for those who have no article yet.
--imars 07:39, 27 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I think the solution is to first categorize all the cellists with already existing articles, and then re-nominate it for deletion. I've already added non-existent articles to Requested articles under "Music", so as to still encourage to people to create new articles. CA387 09:13, 20 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  List of Cellists and Category 

message: Many of the cellists on this list lack notability. Unless the cellist has made specific contributions to the music field—such as authoring books, teaching, or recording—please refrain from adding them (I also suspect that some cellists have been added for self-promotion). Playing well doesn't qualify; prodigies are a dime a dozen these days. I've removed some that aren't notable. CA387 09:44, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Bravo. Ancora, per favore. I've been holding back in this respect because 1) I don't know much about the cellistic world and 2) Notability =/= "reaching the ultimate pinnacle of global fame, so any random street interviewee knows their name." In other words, pretty sure there are lots of notable cellists I've never heard of, but I'm not about to add the name of the 9-year-old up the street whose playing is coming along very nicely. Hope that made at least a bit of sense, __Just plain Bill 12:51, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Notability 

message: For redlinks, i.e. where there is not a handle to some other place with sources, there should at least be sources that each person is a cellist and is notable. —Centrx→talk • 14:55, 3 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Entirely agree and have removed all redlinked names without sources - some could well have been genuinely notable cellists, but without sources, who's to say?  Some were probably vanity edits.  For anyone who wants to see whether I have discarded gems with the dross, the pre-clean-up version was this. BencherliteTalk 22:25, 4 March 2008 (UTC)

text: Okay just want to say that I have just created a new Wikipedia entry for Myung-Wha Chung, so she need no longer be redlinked. I'll try to get round to creating entries for other noteworthy but redlinked cellists when I have the time, if someone else doesn't get there first.
--Whimsical Oracle (talk) 22:05, 30 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sources 

message: As has been done for the Violinists.PedEye1 (talk) 00:55, 26 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Consider listing by century, then by alphabet 

message: Does anybody have any sources about this cellist? I couldn't find this name outside WP mentioned as an cellist. --Pflastertreter (talk) 18:54, 10 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Doreen Vaanden 

message: User:IronGargoyle has been unilaterally removing content from this list on the grounds of notability. While some names may have been deserving of removal (e.g. an apparently non-existent cellist someone recently added - and I do appreciate those edits by IronGargoyle) it seems to me that the cellist of a notable ensemble (usually a string quartet) is ipso facto a notable cellist. Perhaps IronGargoyle interprets this list to be a list strictly of notable cello soloists. In my opinion, that would be an unnecessarily narrow restriction for this list. I think it is preferable to err on the side of inclusion in a list such as this. We're not trying to make a "top twenty cellists" list. We're trying to compile a list of well-known cellists that will be helpful to internet users researching cellists in Wikipedia. Tetsuo (talk) 06:01, 31 August 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Notability is not inherited. I haven't been as consistently stringent on this point as perhaps I should have been. I may go back and remove other similar entries on lists as a consequence. Also, and more importantly, please see WP:LISTPEOPLE, which says that people should not be added to a list unless notability (see WP:N) is demonstrated or if there are reliable, independent sources that establish them as a member of the list. These policies have consensus. There is no need to discuss it on the talk page first. Best, IronGargoyle (talk) 15:24, 2 September 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Does that mean we can remove Keith Richards from the list of Notable Vocalists? xnamkcor (talk) 20:03, 7 February 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removal of names without appropriate consensus 

message: Because of the differing opinions of the family ties of the double bass I  the violin family bit here as:
The cello (/ˈtʃɛloʊ/ chel-oh; plural cellos or celli) is a bowed string instrument with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is a member of the violin family of musical instruments, which also includes the violin, viola and double bass .
On second thought, would it be better to just cut the paragraph after "...musical instruments" and make this a very concise, opinion-free paragraph? Just edit it, please, if you will — I will not start an edit war with myself (or anyone else, for that matter).--Micraboy (talk) 06:55, 14 July 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Violin family 

message: This message is present at the top of the page:
To keep the lists usable and useful, please include only those who have attained notability as cellists. Please do not add those known for other activities who happen to play or have played the cello either professionally (e.g., the conductor Arturo Toscanini and composer Heitor Villa-Lobos) or privately (e.g., the actress Rosamund Pike).  Also, please do not add people without Wikipedia articles, unless you can also add a reference to verify the person's notability as a cellist.
Since this is only relevant to editors, I think it should be made an editnotice. jlwoodwa (talk) 03:37, 16 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Editnotice?