Talk:Kozachok

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Cossack (Russian Cossack dance, Cossack, Ukrainian Cossack, Belarusian Cossack, Cossack) - Ukrainian, South Russian (including Cossack, such as Kuban or Terek) and Belarusian folk dance-dance,a not only Ukrainian Цйфыву (talk) 12:30, 15 August 2022 (UTC)

Categories

There’s some reverting over categories, specifically Category:Russian traditional dances.

Please see WP:CAT, which tells us to use categories that constitute defining characteristics of the subject, according to reliable sources. A quick click through all of the easily accessible sources cited in the article seems to show this is a Ukrainian dance, and that it is also practiced by Russians, Poles, Jews, Hungarians, and the French. It seems to also have been in Ukrainian communities in Russia—I presume it’s still danced by assimilated Ukrainians in Russia, but I did not see that in the sources, nor defined as such. Nahachewsky (102) refers to its “symbolic” characteristic: “the kozachok served as an unequivocal marker of Ukrainianness” in communities where both Poles and Ukrainians danced both Polish and Ukrainian dances.

Do any of the sources define the kozachok as a Russian traditional dance? (Or Belarusian, for that matter?) —Michael Z. 22:15, 30 May 2021 (UTC)

Highly unlikely.--Aristophile (talk) 14:40, 31 May 2021 (UTC)

Most early German/Austrian sources would define it as Kleinrussisch, i.e. Ukrainian.--Aristophile (talk) 14:42, 31 May 2021 (UTC)

This has been idle for a week, so I will adjust the categories accordingly. —Michael Z. 18:05, 8 June 2021 (UTC)

Better source needed

Hi, @Altenmann. I agree with your reasoning,[1] but {{better source needed}} is for tagging “insufficiently reliable sources,” and creates a link to WP:NOTRELIABLE, so I don’t believe it is the right template.

You appear to want a source with more information than that one, or maybe just a non-tertiary source (e.g., {{Tertiary source inline}}), although that doesn’t guarantee references to other sources either.  —Michael Z. 19:07, 16 July 2023 (UTC)

Kozak

Tańce narodowe ruskie Kozak

plwiki and ruwiki state that "kozak" is synonymous with "kazachok" However descriptions differ. In particuar they write that it is a predominintly masculine dance. Can someone clarify? - Altenmann >talk 20:06, 16 July 2023 (UTC)

The word kozachok is the diminutive of kozak, so they have essentially the same meaning. It could be that both have been used for the same or similar dances.  —Michael Z. 22:22, 16 July 2023 (UTC)

You missed what I wrote. Let me repeat: kozak is described as a masculine dance (akin to hopak). While kozachok is a couple dance. - Altenmann >talk 22:42, 16 July 2023 (UTC)

Okay, but do you know that there is no relationship, stylistically, musically, or whatever?  —Michael Z. 23:01, 16 July 2023 (UTC)

I have no knowledge about the history of these dances other than from wikipedia. :-) Hence my question. Maybe by chance someone knowledgeable pops up. But I am pessimistic about recent participation in wikipedia. 95% of edits in my watchlist are from wikignomes. - Altenmann >talk 23:33, 16 July 2023 (UTC)