....."implies that you at least have a mark"
Don't we all - it's called judgment guided by what we know, think we know and what we've done - in our case, thirty odd years of talking to and recording traditional singers.
Perhaps you might tell us what you base your outright dismissal of Sharp, Greig, Hendedrson, Buchan, Lomax, Lloyd.......... and anybody who has ever been stupid or agenda driven enough to use the terms "folk" and "tradition" (not to mention Walter Pardon, Tom Lenihan, Duncan Williamson, The Stewarts, Jeannie Robertson - all of whom have at one time or another attempted to distinguish their songs and stories from the factory manufactured variety.
If you are so confident your ideas are right, why to you insist on using such unpleasantly distorted terms as "Traditional Correctness" and "The Dark Lord Manacle Cowl" - it makes you look a bigger prat than you obviously are.
Jim Carroll