User talk:Raphael D. Thöne
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rap and hip hop
Hey Raphael-- I was just looking at your article Rap and hip hop, and Aleta pointed out that it reduplicates a lot of the information on the Hip-hop article. Nevertheless, there's a lot of good information on your article, and we should try to incorporate the information from your page in the straight Hip-hop page.
Another thought that I had was that we might want to have an article on the umbrella term "Hip-hop" (which much of the information from your article fits), and split our discussion of different forms of hip-hop culture up. We could have a page on DJing, a separate page on MCing, and so on. I like the thought of splitting up our articles-- I think it would allow each article to become more specialized-- but am not 100% sure whether splitting DJing from MCing, in particular, makes sense. You're more of an expert than I am-- what's your sense? Oh, and by the way, welcome to Citizendium! I've liked a lot of the articles you've written. Brian P. Long 20:20, 22 April 2008 (CDT)
Hi Brian, thanks for writing to me and discussing my article. I think it is a good idea to merge my information either into the Hip Hop article or to create new sub-articles (such as DJing, etc....). I will be away until Thursday evening and will do it on Friday. Thanks again. P.S. By the way, I went to your very impressive UserTalk page, looks great! Raphael :Raphael D. Thöne 23. April 2008.