Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Roots music/Child Ballads
To do list
edit- Complete the list of Child Ballads
- Complete the navigation template
- Transcribe the 1860 and 1880's publications on Wikisource.
- Create articles for missing ballads
- Create redirects for all variant spellings
- Tag talk pages with {{Child Ballads Project}}
- Cross reference with Reliques of Ancient English Poetry, which requires digitization on Wikisource.
Notability
edit- It has been established and reaffirmed numerous times at AfD that every ballad in the collection is notable according to Wikipedia's standards due to the abundance of reliable sources, of which Child's work is one.
Resources
edit1860 edition
edit- Digitisations of English and Scottish ballads (1860)
Volume 1; Volume 2; Volume 3; Volume 4; Volume 5; Volume 6; Volume 7; Volume 8.
1883-1898 edition
edit- Digitisations of The English and Scottish Popular Ballads (1882–98)
Volume 1
editVolume 2
editVolume 3
editVolume 4
editVolume 5
editby number
editAll the variants contained in Child's edition are digitised, without apparatus, at http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/eng/child/ and http://www.peterrobins.co.uk/ballads/. And can be found on wikisource: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Child%27s_Ballads