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Contents 1 tangoterms.com 2 Why "Argentine"? 3 What a milonguero is (Unsigned commentary on semantics) 4 Tango-related article deletion 5 Link Farm? 6 Link Spam 7 Automated cross 8 YouTube links 9 Tango Nuevo 10 Origins of Tango?

[edit] tangoterms.com

somebody keeps deleting the link to www.tangoterms.com - it is the only fully illustrated site available for beginers to understand the real meaning of the 12 basic tango moves. It is very relevant for this site and nothing like it is available on the internet so please reinstate the link to WWW.TANGOTERMS.COM!

i do agree: www.tangoterms.com is a sensible external link of general interest. therefore i might put it back in. - Halloleo (talk) 04:26, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

I really like the www.tangoterms.com link... the people are skillful, the moves are fluid and easy to see, the focus moves between two vantage points for clarity and there is no commercial side to the page. I intend to keep checking on the page, though; since the page has two tabs that don't currently work, I expect the page to continue being developed. As such, it may at some point begin to have too much commercialism for inclusion here. Binksternet (talk) 04:30, 5 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Why "Argentine"?

why argentinian tango ?? what about URUGUAY ? URUGUAY exist !! what about the most important tango "La Cumparsita",(Mattos Rodriguez, Montevideo, Uruguay),.. the most important milonga "La Puñalada" (Pintin Castellanos, Montevideo, Uruguay), ...The most imnportant tango vals "Desde el Alma", ( Rosita Melo, Uruguay), Carlos Gardel (tacuarembo, Uruguay), Canaro (San Jose, Uruguay), Julio Sosa, Las Piedras, Uruguay, and hundreds of others tango uruguayans musicians ?? TANGO IS TANGO. OR RIVERPLATE TANGO.

mmmh, you might object against the term argentinian tango, because it doesn't reflect reality appropriately, however it is the term coined for a quit a while. so i suggest we stick with it just as a technical term. - Halloleo (talk) 06:16, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] What a milonguero is (Unsigned commentary on semantics)

A milonguero is not every person who goes to milongas. A milonguero is a man who lives only to dance the tango. His whole life is the tango. He spends every day at milongas. Most teach tango or look for a woman to support them so that they are able to go to dance.

—The preceding unsigned comment was added by Tangospam (talk) 21:22, June 15, 2006

[edit] Tango-related article deletion

Please vote Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Tango.info (2nd nomination). `'mikka (t) 18:46, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Link Farm?

What criteria is there for inclusion of any particular city's Tango page, as opposed to others? Or.... why don't we have links to the Tango pages for every city? Or every Tango dance studio/venue?

To put it another way, what is the measure for prominance/significance? Because I believe there are other Tango scenes in the states that are considered better in overall quality. Even though L.A. (& even NYC) are larger in scale & population, the scenes in Portland and SF appear to be stronger and more cohesive.

If no one can answer this, I move we delete the link for the LA Tango website.

I suppose an alternative would be to add the links for other prominant sites for Tango in Nijmegan (Holland), Portland, OR, and San Francisco.... etc.. At the very least, the hubs that handle the majority of traffic for a given region or major city.

--Antelope In Search Of Truth 21:19, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

Perhaps the criteria of history: Each town and city that has developed its own Tango community, has a history. This would include dates when the scene started, by whom, what particular influences and styles existed. --nousername 20:19, 05 February 2006

[edit] Link Spam

The practice of placing new links at the top of the list, unless there is a framework/organization scheme in place that warrants such placement, is not correct procedure.

It makes the new link look like spam and attracts the attention of people who work to curtail link spamming bots. It's already questionable when you have a user with the name: TangoAfficionado adding a link to a website called TangoAfficionado.com. If that site does not hold enough notability within the LA tango community on it's own, it should be removed from mention here.

--Antelope In Search Of Truth 21:50, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Automated cross

The article suggests that the follower should cross automatically when the man is walking on her right side. Why should she do that? There are schools in which the crossing is indicated by the leader.

—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 85.200.26.155 (talk) 21:23, October 26, 2006

You could have just logged in and done the edit yourself..... lol

--Antelope In Search Of Truth 22:58, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] YouTube links

This article is one of thousands on Wikipedia that have a link to YouTube in it. Based on the External links policy, most of these should probably be removed. I'm putting this message here, on this talk page, to request the regular editors take a look at the link and make sure it doesn't violate policy. In short: 1. 99% of the time YouTube should not be used as a source. 2. We must not link to material that violates someones copyright. If you are not sure if the link on this article should be removed or you would like to help spread this message contact us on this page. Thanks, ---J.S (t|c) 06:21, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Tango Nuevo

Tango Nuevo points here. Nuevo Tango is red (as I am writing). Tango nuevo redirects to Nuevo tango. I am not an expert here, but the dance part of Nuevo tango speaks something close to Tango Nuevo as described here. Please make an order with them. It particular, does it make sense to have two artices, Tango Nuevo (music) and Tango Nuevo (dance), to avoid sloppy mix? `'mikka 00:05, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

Well, there are articles tango (music) and tango (dance). --Mariano(t/c) 11:48, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Origins of Tango?

The whole history of Tango is completely omitted. --dunnhaupt (talk) 14:09, 2 February 2008 (UTC)

See History of Tango. Binksternet (talk) 16:26, 2 February 2008 (UTC)