Talk:Oral poetry

Requested move

Oral poetry → Oral tradition — near synonym; target page is a much better developed article -- nothing in source that isn't treated in greater detail in target —DavidOaks (talk) 03:39, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

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Feel free to state your position on the renaming proposal by beginning a new line in this section with *'''Support''' or *'''Oppose''', then sign your comment with ~~~~. Since polling is not a substitute for discussion, please explain your reasons, taking into account Wikipedia's naming conventions.

• Oppose. This request and the related one to move Oral-Formulaic Composition to the same page (!!) appear to muddle merging and moving. There have been several merge proposals on the talk pages, none of them gaining sufficient support to proceed. Sort out a proposal there... And I doubt it will be a move you want. Andrewa (talk) 13:32, 14 May 2008 (UTC)
• Oppose per Andrewa. Merging articles is a very different action from simply moving (renaming). older ≠ wiser 12:59, 15 May 2008 (UTC)
• Oppose The current article on Oral Tradition is very long and seems to me to lack structural balance, with parts of the article going into what seems to me to be minute academic detail about debated aspects of some viewpoint or other. I think that before there is any move of material into that topic, the Oral Tradition article needs restructuring to be more understandable to someone outside the field, so some detail would be removed or be moved to new separate topics. --AlotToLearn (talk) 23:23, 14 December 2008 (UTC)
• support I hate to be a naysayer, but I don't think there is enough on Oral Poetry to keep it seperate from Oral Tradition, which is really the route of its history. If there is, then this article needs a great expansion using that information, but it can't stay a stub, and Oral Poetry would greatly benefit from the text of Oral Tradition, no matter how muddled it may beMrathel (talk) 04:30, 17 December 2008 (UTC)
• oppose Oral-formulaic theory is a specific (albeit influential) scholarly approach to a particular subset of oral (and in practice written) poetry. Although it should be mentioned in an entry on oral poetry, each deserves a separate entry. I have attempted a rewrite of the two entries in order to match them better to their distinctive roles. Alarichall (talk) 17:24, 1 January 2009 (UTC)

Discussion

Any additional comments:

• Seeing as Oral tradition already exists, isn't this a merge proposal rather than a move? Paulbrock (talk) 11:36, 14 May 2008 (UTC)
• Oppose,' the topic there is much broader, and given the importance, its good to have the specific topic article as well. If there's not enough here, we can expand. (as for Oral-Formulaic Composition that too is a very specific and very well known matter, and can stand on its own. DGG (talk) 17:34, 25 September 2008 (UTC)