Talk:American Tribal Style Belly Dance

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Well, I guess this fun article could use some cleaning up, as well. Maybe not so much on the linkdump, too? Anyone watching? Any comments? Woodrow, known to some as Asim 00:15, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

Hey there. Don't know what you mean by linkdump, but I brought the links back into the text. --Mrsmalkav 23:16, 27 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

By "linkdump", I refer to people only putting links in articles w/o content. I'd much prefer them to be part of the text, like the ones here -- although I think the number of troupes listed might still be a bit excessive. This is great work, by the by! Thank you so much! Woodrow, known to some as Asim 01:41, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

Tribal Style vs ATS

Since this article is called "American Tribal Style", shouldn't it talk more directly about ATS instead of "Tribal Style"?? Thoughts? --Mrsmalkav 23:25, 27 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Ya -- we need both articles, in point of fact. We really need a ton of branch-off articles in the "belly dance" category, and I wish I had time to write 'em...or knowledge enough to do 'em justice. Woodrow, known to some as Asim 01:38, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

I've got some good text I can write up/transcribe from Jamila Salimpour talking about Bal Anat, but this is not the place to put it. I think it is high time to make a Tribal Style Belly Dance umbrella page, with links contained therein that connect to separate pages about Tribal Fusion (RB et al) and ATS. Mrsmalkav 18:20, 9 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Corrections

I remember the email like it was yesterday; I had put 'Ru in the Tribal category on my old site, and one of the members (not John, maybe Rita?) emailed me to get taken out. They do a ton of Tribal seminars, but consider themselves to be re-constructing Egyptian Folkloric dance with a bit of a modern twist. And yea, Zi'ah uses the Hebraic spelling for her name, as opposed to the Arabic. Woodrow, known to some as Asim 01:51, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

References

Please provide references to sources of this text. DO NOT add links to home pages of particular companies or dancers. This is spam and will be deleted. If some of them are notable, please write articles about them and link these articles here (if they survive). `'mikkanarxi 16:23, 31 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I can concur with the removal of the links. At the same time, you removed much of the text on ATS, which is, after all, the core of the article. It also explains the difference between it and the more-generic "Tribal" moniker (as commented above by Mrsmalkav). I would vastly prefer to keep that text, with an eye towards perhaps modifying it to be more neutral. I'm also in the process of collecting external references, however I do not see the text removal as critical to that process. Would you concur? Woodrow, known to some as Asim 17:30, 31 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I added a reference link back to FCBD's About page, which has a history section as well, with lots of excellent reference material about tribal bellydance. This is not intended as an advertisement for FCBD, but to be a resource of further reading about the subject at hand as written by those who were/are part of the expert field of practitioners of the art, which is what a reference should be. -Shay also known as Shay 2012-Jun-21

External links suggest advertising

The last two paragraphs of the first section of this article consist primarily of external links. There's no objection to listing teachers and practitioners of the style, but the presence of so many external links suggests advertising. I already took the liberty of removing the sixth paragraph, which was blatant advertising for FatChance, as evidenced by its fourth sentence, beginning "Our goal is that you, the student, should be able to attend a FCBD ATS class..." IMO the external links should either be converted to internal links (if a WP article for the person/troupe exists) or converted to plain text. Victimofleisure (talk) 23:19, 28 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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