Talk:List of hammered dulcimer players

message: Billy Bennington perhaps belongs here. There is an album called "The Bardford Angel" but I know next to nothing about him.
:Good point, I added him to the list.  I'll see if I can scrape together the beginnings of a biography on him. Dsreyn 17:01, 30 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Billy Bennington 

message: This list says it is for "noted musicians who play the hammered dulcimer". Is it actually a list of musicians who are noted for playing the hammered dulcimer? One of the artists listed here (Steven Wilson) has hammered dulcimer listed as one of the instruments he plays on a few Porcupine Tree albums...but his main instruments are clearly guitar and vocals. What does it take to be on this list? -dvs- 22:08, 13 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: If an individual has their own Wikipedia article then they are notable. Shawnc 02:16, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  How noted is noted? 

message: If the player you wish to add to the list does not yet have an article (aka a "red link"), please add their name below this paragraph so that they can be added to the main list when the article is created. Use wiki-links for the name so they can be seen to change from red to blue:
*Tina Bergmann
*Tina Gugeler
*Ken Kolodner
*Trey Spurance
*Michiyo Iguchi
*Marcille Wallis
*Paul Haslem
*Adam Sutch
*Michelle Sutch
*David Moran
*Marcy Prochaska
*Cindy Ribet
*David Fields
*Karen Ashbrook  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 167.102.229.77 (talk) 16:17, 10 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Perhaps the "to be created" list could be split into a "priority 1"/"priority 2" type of heirarchy. The list loses any integrity if a purposeless red-link gets added to it. And a dulcimer player with some notability like Tina Bergmann could likely pass WP:BIO enough to warrant an article creation for her. But until she has one she should remain on this page and not the main page. 156.34.209.197 02:35, 29 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: As the term being used is "notable" and this being Wikipedia it's the WP definition that counts. A list of notable players cannot, by definition, have red links as an article is required to determine if in fact that person is notable (per WP:N and WP:MUSIC). ---- WebHamster 02:42, 29 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Here are some more artists that have released albums and may eventually merit being on the list, judging by the aforementioned standards:  Marcy Prochaska, Cindy Ribet, David Fields. Amazinrick 19:05, 20 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Notable players without articles

message: Do notable musicians who have occasionally and briefly played hammer dulcimer belong here?  It looks like there's been a lot of discussion about this, but no consensus or conclusion.  I'd suggest we restrict the list to people who have been verifiably described as "hammer(ed) dulcimer players" or some such variant.  Generally, I think a "player" of an instruments is taken to mean someone who played the instrument regularly for a significant portion of their career.  But surely this issue has come up for other instrument-player lists... is there a more general discussion and/or consensus somewhere?  --Allen (talk) 17:22, 1 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  criteria for inclusion? 

message: Why is "Deine Mudda" (Maternal Insult) listed as a hammered dulcimer player (in the "M"s)? Someone's idea of a joke? Preferably delete.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2602:306:CCA2:F180:B8E8:4142:A187:C76F (talk) 10:14, 1 October 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Deine Mudda