Talk:List of bagpipe technology books

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Contents 1 Title 2 References 3 Another Thought 4 List of Bagpipe Books

[edit] Title

Why is "technology" in the title? Why not just "books"?

in my library, i have about 40' of shelf space by 8' feet high and lots of files cabinets. i might have a 1000 books on the bagpipes. i have been sorting them out this past week. i probably have 500 books on pipe music; in many languages as well.

i personally feel that they should be grouped by categories such as type bagpipe, by author in some cases; by subjects such as music, tutors, pictures, etc. Certainly a title: List of books on bagpipes is fine with me; but the organization of it is of critical importance if it is to be helpful to readers of wikipedia. joe 03:18, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

Agreed, there could be some more thought put into the naming here. The question is what is a useful naming scheme? How useful is it to have all the pipemaking, reedmaking, and other maintainance books in one list for every type of bagpipe when most of that stuff is only relevant to one particular kind? Perhaps seperate lists of books for each type of bagpipe would be more useful to someone actually looking for information. Calum 16:36, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] References

Why is there a "References" section when the entire article is a list of books? Badagnani 04:08, 15 July 2006 (UTC)

the books are listed by type of bagpipe. the term reference in retrospect is a poor choice of words. their probably shoudl be a "general" category of techical books that apply to all bagpipe types. i am changing the word reference to General. joe 03:10, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Another Thought

i am an amateur on wikipedia, and defer to the great wisdom that has taken wikipedia this far.

i am not familiar with the all the capabilites of wikipedia. but i say wouldn't it be nice if we had a page: list of book on the bagpipes. and if we had a template, like we do for references, where we could store author name, title, year pub, and codes to define the book contents. then one could enter the and sort the books according to existing criteria. to me this would certainly be a nice enhancement to have. joe 15:16, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

For now, why not just list all the books according to pipe (with subcategories if you like). I just think the title is confusing and don't understand why there's a "references" section when the whole article is a list of books. Badagnani 16:08, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] List of Bagpipe Books

1. can we change the name to list of bagpipe books per Badagnni

2. since we already have a list of bagpipe music, can we keep the bagpipe music in the List of bagpipe music and not in this list.

3. per calum, list books by type of bagpipe, and if we have enough books, which i think we will, have subcategories for pipe amking , reed making , or general.

joe 23:12, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

This list of books will all be non-fiction, correct? Then List of books about bagpipes wouldn't be 100% though List of nonfiction books about bagpipes might work. The subcategories could go under each pipe type, so for example the highland pipes could have subcategories for pipe making, reed making, etc. Badagnani 23:33, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

i belive we already have too much fiction about bagpipes. the list should be non-finction books. the proposed name of "list of nonfiction books about bagpipes" is another way of saying: "list of bagpipe technology books." i have come full circle in my mind. joe 14:22, 18 July 2006 (UTC)