User talk:Cameronmac1/Evaluate an Article

Feedback on Article Evaluation

I really like your evaluation of this article. You assess all of the criteria suggested by Wikipedia, and you generally have good things to say about what has been done well and what could be done better, as well as concrete ideas about how the article could be improved. It is clear that you have a good sense of missing information and the sources that could be used. You are right that the challenge with using media is that it has to have a CC (Creative Commons) license or it has to be out of copyright -- hard to know whether any images or sound files relevant to Gordon Duncan exist that could be used. But it would be worth looking!

Did you know that I heard him in concert? I lived in Edinburgh from 1994 to 1995 and attended the Celtic Connections festival (which was pretty new then) in Glasgow in January 1995. I had no idea who he was. I just saw that he was playing a concert and it fit my schedule so I thought, "why not?" This was long before I knew much about Celtic or Gaelic music. It was electric. It was a soft-seat theatre and he came onstage and really never looked at anyone. He just paced back and forth on the stage while playing. Everyone was seated in their seats, relatively quiet and still. But I suddenly became aware that everyone -- everyone -- was tapping their feet in time to his music. Everyone was with him but foot tapping is a very Gaelic way of being in time with a musician (rather than clapping or whooping). I've never forgotten that concert, and I've never forgotten how powerful his playing was. CBFraoch (talk) 17:17, 12 November 2023 (UTC)