Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Roots music/Child Ballads

To do list

• Complete the list of Child Ballads
• Complete the navigation template
• Transcribe the 1860 and 1880's publications on Wikisource.
• Create articles for missing ballads
• Create redirects for all variant spellings
• Tag talk pages with {{Child Ballads Project}}
• Cross reference with Reliques of Ancient English Poetry, which requires digitization on Wikisource.

Notability

• It has been established and reaffirmed numerous times at AfD that every ballad in the collection is notable according to Wikipedia's standards due to the abundance of reliable sources, of which Child's work is one.

Resources

1860 edition

• Digitisations of English and Scottish ballads (1860)

Volume 1; Volume 2; Volume 3; Volume 4; Volume 5; Volume 6; Volume 7; Volume 8.

1883-1898 edition

• Digitisations of The English and Scottish Popular Ballads (1882–98)

Volume 1

• Part 1, ballads 1-28
• Part 2, ballads 29-53

Volume 2

• Part 3, ballads 54-82
• Part 4, ballads 83-113; another scan of part 4

Volume 3

• Part 5, ballads 114-155
• Part 6, ballads 156-188

Volume 4

• Part 7, ballads 189-225
• Part 8, ballads 226-265

Volume 5

• Part 9, ballads 266-305; another scan of part 9
• Part 10 (glossary, ballad airs, bibliography, etc)

by number

All the variants contained in Child's edition are digitised, without apparatus, at http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/eng/child/ and http://www.peterrobins.co.uk/ballads/. And can be found on wikisource: http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Child%27s_Ballads