Talk:The Raggle Taggle Gypsy

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I have only just spotted that there is a duplication - my article "Black Jack Davey" is much the same as this article on "Raggle Taggle Gypsy". Ooops! Somebody should amalgamate them. It would definitely have helped if the author of this article had made a link to Child Ballad 200, then I would have noticied this article. Ogg 07:43, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

• I actually just started the article The Gypsy Laddie as an attempt to make one main entry on the ballad, and then link to all the variants from it. I picked that title, as that is what the ballad was originally called, and thought it best for it to be the hub of other information about it. My reasoning for this is to have each variation have it's own article, each with a history, known recordings and lyrics, as compared to dumping them all in one super-long article. --jgsampson 14:32, 31 May 2006 (EST)

I'm a little dubious about this approach; it seems likely to lead to confusing duplication and forking, and uncertainty about what information belongs where. I further doubt that the ballad needs 3+ articles. There's not that much encyclopedic information in any one article at the moment. Lyrics, for instance, should go to WikiSource. Jkelly 18:44, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Country of Origin?

Exactly what country does the song originate from? The article says it has been recorded by artists from loads of different countries, but doesn't seem to say where it first came from. Can we get some clarifacation of that point? --Hibernian 20:27, 24 December 2006 (UTC) It's from Scotland, see Black Jack Davy Ogg 13:15, 25 February 2007 (UTC)