This article is within the scope of WikiProject Biography, a collaborative effort to create, develop and organize Wikipedia's articles about people. All interested editors are invited to join the project and contribute to the discussion. For instructions on how to use this banner, please refer to the documentation.BiographyWikipedia:WikiProject BiographyTemplate:WikiProject Biographybiography articles
This article is within the scope of WikiProject Middle Ages, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of the Middle Ages on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.Middle AgesWikipedia:WikiProject Middle AgesTemplate:WikiProject Middle AgesMiddle Ages articles
This article is within the scope of WikiProject Music theory, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of music theory, theory terminology, music theorists, and musical analysis on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.Music theoryWikipedia:WikiProject Music theoryTemplate:WikiProject Music theoryMusic theory articles
Latest comment: 7 years ago2 comments2 people in discussion
Some of this is plagiarized from the 1907 New Werner edition [1] of the Encyclopaedia Brittanica.
Blcarson (talk) 00:31, 19 January 2017 (UTC)Ben CarsonReply
Actually it is from the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica (see the first item under References, and this revision from March 2005). It's public domain. In the early days of the project we copied a lot of stuff from here. It's fully legitimate to do so -- it's public domain -- in those days no one had any idea that Wikipedia would become such an enormous source of information for so many people, so many people just tried to fill out empty entries from that hundred-year old source -- personally I wish we hadn't used it, not just because it's so difficult to rewrite and paraphrase, but because musicological research is light-years beyond where it was then. Feel free to rewrite, of course, as there is a lot of more current information on Hucbald, and scholarship on his work and its significance is much more advanced. Antandrus(talk) 01:06, 19 January 2017 (UTC)Reply
