The Roud Indexes are tools for finding information. Like Child's work in ESPB they are inclusive rather than exclusive. They do not follow any debatable or proscribed definitions. They deal in published and unpublished collections of songs that someone has nominated as 'folk songs' in the English language. Despite what one person has stated, we all who are interested use these indexes and are deeply grateful for them. We can disagree as to what should or should not be included but that would not diminish their usefulness.