Issue 2348: Lord of the Isles
- Object
- Lord of the Isles (Dance)
- Submitter
- Stephen Webb (SJW)
- Assigned to
- Viktor Lehmann
- Priority
- Normal
- Disposition
- Fixed
- Description
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I have researched extensively the dances collected by Mary MacNab and there is no evidence at all that this dance name can be attributed to her. In fact no evidence that this a dance at all. It is more likely a typing error. I pose the question what is the point of simply transferring a name to which no information can legitimacy be attributed? In my view this dance and any others that are merely a name with no substance should go into a ghost file and only be activated when the dance name emerges with something tangible to associate with it - should it ever, to show it as a real dance. Personally, for the above reasons I would at the very least, like to see this dance removed from being attributed to Mrs MacNab. I find it offends my sense of correctness. Many thanks
Previous Actions
- Date March 4, 2021, 9:29 p.m.
- User Stephen Webb (SJW)
New issue submitted
- Date Dec. 22, 2022, 5:08 p.m.
- User Viktor Lehmann (tone2tone)
Assigned changed to »tone2tone« (previously »None«)
Disposition changed to »Fixed« (previously »New«)
Anselm adjusted some things shortly after this issue was submitted. Overall we are not easily deleting dances just because there is no proof of them online. Given that, we shouldn’t add the “lost MacNab” dances either. Our database has seen kind of multiple generations of creators and editors, and sometimes an error might have occured when adding something, but sometimes we just might not know which data the addition was based on at the time. We rather keep something potentially wrong, yet not harmful, than deleting it “just like that” on presumption. This is our general guideline as editors which we wil keep (as we have no “ghost file” or parallel database universe).