Talk:Smithsonian Folkways Recordings

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Merge
Clearly the misnamed Smithsonian folkways records should be merged here and redirected, although I see no need to reprint a mission statement that is presumably on their official site, which is linked. I'd be perfectly happy to see Folkways Records merged as well. This is, after all, the current name, it is a "direct descendant" and usually in these circumstances we just put the article at the current name and redirect from the old one. - Jmabel | Talk 04:04, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

Agreement for merger
The "Smithsonian folkways records" should probably be removed and used as a redirect. I'm not sure how to go about putting them altogether, but I assume that the Folkway Records should be put in the History section. Also, we should try to avoid this becoming an advertisement. Capeboy 16:34, 14 December 2006 (UTC)

Alberta?
We have two links here to a project at the University of Alberta that appears at most tangentially connected to the record label. Unless someone can explain the connection, and it is clearly on topic, these should be removed. - Jmabel | Talk 20:14, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

No merge
When the Smithsonian Institution acquired Folways Records, it also acquired several other labels that were added to its catalog (Paredon, Cook, etc.) If Smithsonian Folkways Recordings were to merge with Folkways Records, it should also merge with the other labels resulting in all of these other labels being merged into one big article that would not nake sense. Morganfitzp 05:28, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
 * OK, but then there is some refactoring in order (probably too much about Asch here; the division should be cleaner). - Jmabel | Talk 01:13, 11 April 2007 (UTC)