Wikipedia:Peer review/List of Caribbean drums/archive1

List of Caribbean drums edit

Exhaustive or pretty close to it. This list clears up a lot of confusing terminology (slightly different words used on slightly different islands for slightly different drums), I think, and is easy to use. Suggestions very welcome, as I hope to bring this to WP:FLC soon. Tuf-Kat 02:30, 11 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

It would be great if the entries marked See Foo where wikilinked with a html anchor to go straight to that refered entry. I don't know the exact template for doing that on WP but there should be one. I also think it would nice if two more columns were added one for number of heads and one for head material. It took me clicking on a link to figure out what was meant by "Use". Maybe "Music" or "Genre" would be a better description?--BirgitteSB 20:41, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

I'm not aware of a template that does that, but it would be nice. I'll take a look around and see if I can find it. I'm wary about adding more columns because I don't want to squeeze it too much - but these're almost all single-headed, I think - most of them don't mention it because that's the norm, but head material might be reasonable. I'll see if I can cook up something this weekend. I agree that the "use" heading is subideal, I've changed it to "tradition", but I'm not committed to that. Tuf-Kat 02:56, 16 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Also it would be great to make the columns sortable like List of Pennsylvania state parks.--BirgitteSB 13:18, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

That's neat! Tuf-Kat 21:19, 17 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I've decided not to add any additional columns. Some drums don't necessarily have a traditional or especially common head material, and some can even be either double- or single-headed in different circumstances, depending on the maker. So, I think either of those columns would be of dubious value. Tuf-Kat 21:21, 17 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]