Joe

This is partly what I'd hoped to avoid in my PMs to you.

There is no doubt that the DT is inaccurate and contains some peculiar versions of things. This is a problem, but could be dealt with by updating the DT when someone points out the inaccuracies (I accept this may take some time).

For many of the songs - e.g. The Cutty Wren - we have quite a lot of information in threads which now needs to be summarised and synthesised so that people looking can be pointed to a source of information which begins as accurately as we can get it without being pointed to ten different threads, each of which contains a mixture of good info and total claptrap.

These good threads (possibly permathreads) could then be added-to as new information arrives and re-synthesised from time to time in order to keep them relatively accurate and tidy. This is what I had volunteered to kick off. Unfortunately, what we seem to have in the new "Cutty Wren" thread is another thread on the Cutty Wren theme, perpetuating the old problem.

Perhaps this should have been in a PM, but I begin to despair.

Very best regards
Ian