Wikibooks:Requests for import/Archives/2017/December

Import from Wikisource

 * s:Wikisource:Proposed deletions wonders if importing this work is okay.--Jusjih (discuss • contribs) 03:38, 24 December 2017 (UTC)
 * I'm wondering two things:
 * What is the origin of the folktale? We're clear it's not something that was published somewhere, so it's from an oral tradition; but, what oral tradition?  Place, culture, how did it come to be recorded?
 * Is there an existing book here that it would fit into? If not, what sort of book would it fit into?  There has been some work this year, iirc, on a Wikijunior book collecting stories of a sort, but that one doesn't strike me as a Wikijunior thing.
 * It seems to me, understanding these things would be helpful in considering the possible fate of that item. --Pi zero (discuss • contribs) 05:30, 24 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Unfortunately searching Turpie Dog on the web gets too few results, so I cannot think of existing books to fit in. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jusjih (discuss • contribs) 02:34, 25 December 2017‎
 * I meant to ask what book on Wikibooks it might fit into. A small item like that wouldn't exist (in the long run) on Wikibooks by itself; it would have to be a part of something bigger.  --Pi zero (discuss • contribs) 02:45, 25 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Category:Subject:Literature?--Jusjih (discuss • contribs) 04:49, 26 December 2017 (UTC)
 * A subject is rather like a section of a library; literature on the third floor, science and math on the fourth floor, etc. My question is, what book would the story fit into.  On one hand, historically Wikibooks has not, to my knowledge, generally taken recordings of oral folk tales, which seems to be on the ticklish edge of original research; on the other hand, our attitude toward citing sources has been more free-wheeling than Wikipedia.  There has been, and still is, controversy over a tentatively envisioned Wikijunior book called Wikijunior:Stories &mdash; but this Turpie-dog thing doesn't seem to me to belong on Wikijunior, and I'm already worried about whether the Wikijunior book is cleary-enough defined.  So I was wondering whether you know of, or could envision the creation of, a book that the Turpie-dog story would belong in.  --Pi zero (discuss • contribs) 14:17, 26 December 2017 (UTC)
 * I'm actually not sure such a book would be in the Literature section, anyway, as it's apparently an oral story. At any rate, I don't see anything in the list of books there.  --Pi zero (discuss • contribs) 14:30, 26 December 2017 (UTC)

It was first told in this form in Kentucky, though probably brought over from the Old World(as hinted by the existance of a similar tale in English Folktales).

It would fit in to a book of Kentucky folktales or a supercategory thereof(ex. Southern American Folktales, American Folktales, &amp;c.). JustinCB (discuss • contribs) 01:37, 27 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Does the book exist yet?--Jusjih (discuss • contribs) 04:30, 28 December 2017 (UTC)

s:Messiah (MIT Chamber Choir)
This user-annotated audio recording of Handel's Messiah would (probably) be a valuable addition to Wikibooks, but does not belong at Wikisource. Would you like to import it? Beleg Tâl (discuss • contribs) 19:15, 30 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Done. Please clean up then.--Jusjih (discuss • contribs) 04:01, 31 December 2017 (UTC)