User talk:Gallivantbassist

June 2021
Hello, I'm DMacks. I noticed that you added or changed content in an article, Wellerman, but you didn't provide a reliable source. It's been removed and archived in the page history for now, but if you'd like to include a citation and re-add it, please do so. You can have a look at the tutorial on citing sources. If you think I made a mistake, you can leave me a message on my talk page. ''The multiple refs all indicate that it is a sea shanty. You would need actual reliable source citations disproving it, not just using your own understanding/opinion.'' DMacks (talk) 10:16, 19 June 2021 (UTC)

Hi, the changes I provided are proved in sources already provided on the article. Wellerman isn’t a working song, so it isn’t and never will be a sea shanty Gallivantbassist (talk) 10:22, 19 June 2021 (UTC)
 * I checked the five refs in the lead paragraph, and it looks like four of them consider it a sea shanty while one says it is not. These all of these seem like high quality (WP:RS) sources...no clear basis for declaring the minority as authoritative, so we have to go with due weight based on the multiple refs. The last sentence of the lead paragraph does indicate that there is not universal agreement that all these related songs are should truely be considered such. I wonder if that sentence could be rewritten to more explicitly indicate this dispute? Or I just tried "sea song" as the first sentence, leaving "popularly considered shanty" in the last sentence. That way we don't choose sides in the "correct" academic label, but document what pop-culture says even if it's not correct. [[User:DMacks|DMacks (talk) 10:49, 19 June 2021 (UTC)