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Could anyone add anything about, specifically, Lord of the Rings Online (Turbine) .abc, please?

Halcyonhalogen (talk) 17:51, 12 November 2011 (UTC)

A more-complete example of ABC notation
Hi, I love that there is an example of how this works and turns into notation. Yet it did not include all the letters used in notation. For example, the piece has no C in it. Also, there is no indication in the example of how sharps and flats and all might work. Also, what if it goes into the Bass Clef? or far above the Treble Clef? Etc. And 1/16 notes? And others? Etc. It would be great to see a more complete example included in the article, especially for those who don't wish to hunt it down elsewhere. Would someone like to add a more-complete example of ABC notation? Thanks! Misty MH (talk) 00:03, 10 August 2013 (UTC)

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Not sure if I'm requesting this properly, but: Could we have a better example of ABC and its parallel music notation? One common question is whether the note C in the staff (3rd space from bottom) is represented as upper case "C" or lower case "c". The example given has no occurrences of that note!

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All external links removed? Why?
I note that this edit by a first-time editor of this article has entirely removed all external links. In my opinion, this makes the article much less useful. There are now a whole lot of projects listed which are impossible to find, because their names are generic (previously, it was easy because the name was linked to the project page). If nobody objects, I would prefer to either add them all back in or reformat them as "references" instead of external links (perhaps that's allowed under the silly one-size-fits-all rules? In any case, there's always WP:IAR-abg). Esn (talk) 11:39, 24 November 2017 (UTC)
 * No objection from me; it was surprising to see links to sites of Chris Walshaw and John Chambers removed. The concertina.net converter has not worked for a while, and it makes little sense to provide an archive link to it. If you or someone else doesn’t get to it first, as I find time I will put back selected in-line links, formatted as references, and restore the external links section. I’d like to add a link to folktunefinder.com, which indexes much the same data as JC’s site does, with a different user interface. Just plain Bill (talk) 14:02, 24 November 2017 (UTC)
 * I've put back some of the links, converting the inline links in the history section to refs. I added folktunefinder.com, which occupies a similar niche to JC's tunefinder, with the possibility of searching by entering a few notes on a virtual piano keyboard, and has a different output format, perhaps friendlier to some eyes. Just plain Bill (talk) 17:10, 25 November 2017 (UTC)

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Unreliable sources
Given the tags on the article, which of the, "listed sources," does this article use that, "may not be reliable," and why may these sources not be reliable? Hyacinth (talk) 02:20, 13 April 2019 (UTC)


 * IMO, the complaint was written by someone who doesn't understand the domain. It was justified by comparing this article to the reference sources of literature and history articles.    It should have been compared to other formatting languages and standards and to computer programming languages.   For instance, the sources for the article on the Python programming language are largely to python.org, which publishes the definitive standards for Python, and the sources for Unicode are unicode.org, which publishes the Unicode standard.
 * This is a notation formatting language, with a narrow user base and little controversy. Its reliable sources are necessarily links to its format definitions and the various tools that implement it.  And there really isn't much in the way of secondary sources, because there's little criticism or discussion -- just tune compilations that use it, individual people or small groups that use it; and people who ask questions about how to use it.


 * The sources it links are the sources that exist, and they're absolutely where anyone using the notation (me, for instance) or needing to learn about it would go.

PatriciaJH (talk) 19:34, 18 May 2023 (UTC)