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Delete. At
WP:NOTDICT it explains that Wikipedia is not a dictionary but rather an online encyclopedia to provide information on different topics. We should not create articles that just give definitions of any word. --
Vaco98 (
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01:40, 19 February 2022 (UTC)reply
You should both read
Project:Wikipedia is not a dictionary properly. This is not a dictionary article about a word. It has zero etymology, pronunciation, and other dictionary stuff. It's a stub encyclopaedia article about an element of mediaeval musical notation, also called the "
divisio syllabarum" (per Edwin Frederick Flindell, at any rate). The question is whether it is capable of expansion. A quick look around indicates that it is, either standalone or refactored into an article with larger scope to include the divisio syllabarum, the
divisio modi, and the
suspiratio, perhaps as a sub-topic of
mensural notation (which mentions none of these) or even straightforwardly in that article.
All of this is achievable with non-administrator tools.
It's worth noting, by the way, that not everyone accepts
Friedrich Ludwig's nomenclature. Stephen Parkinson considered it "cumbersome" and suggested "lineola".
Researching this, and the others aforementioned, involves mainly books, written in German, French, and Italian. Parkinson's article on the Cantigas, where xe remarks on the Silbenstrich, is in English, as is Flindell's cited-by-others thesis (
OCLC38652486).
Uncle G (
talk)
07:00, 19 February 2022 (UTC)reply
Comment: I agree with Michael Bednarek's findings. Can we merge this very specific little thing into mensural notation, making
Silbenstrich (music) a redirect? Because it's only a secondary meaning of the normal German Silbenstrich, users may link here meaning something else. -
Uncle G, please close paragraphs that you open, or the editor colours are confused. --
Gerda Arendt (
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07:33, 19 February 2022 (UTC)reply
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