Talk:Chopin etudes

Original research

This article is a direct copy and paste from http://www.geocities.com/Vienna/3495/etudes.html. I attempted to nominate it for speedy delete, but User:Hex90 removed the tag. The editor claims that he is the author of the website. I then referred him to the WP:NOR policy on this very talk page, but that seems to have been deleted. Any information about the Chopin etudes should be a part of the Frédéric Chopin article where it can be watched by those actively editing that article. This article should either be a redirect or speedy deleted as copyvio/original research. Wikipedia is not a Geocities mirror. -- Malber (talk • contribs) 16:19, 23 May 2006 (UTC)

I have created an article Études (Chopin) (I'm trying to follow the naming convention for classical works, please fix if it's wrong). Kisch 11:15, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

A-ha. I've redirected it to the new article, which is clearly the one we should have. Not everything from Hex's geocities site constitutes OR: many of the technical musical terms would be readily verifiable by reference to the score. However, the more descriptive parts clearly do. I also think this subject deserves an independent article, as the work is a relatively major one in the classical piano canon and we could, in principle, have aperfect article about the etudes. The Land 11:27, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

A lot of the Geocities stuff is factual and could be incorporated in a modified fashion - I presume I'd need Hex's permission to start doing this though. Kisch 12:39, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

That's fine, but it should be paraphrased, not copy-and-pasted. A more reputable source should be cited than a geocities site. If the scores are going to be used as source, there should be examples. This shouldn't be too much of a problem as the pieces are in the public domain. Just please no scans of piano books which would be copyvios. -- Malber (talk • contribs) 13:39, 24 May 2006 (UTC)