Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Childe Rowland

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The result of the debate was NO CONSENSUS. dbenbenn | talk 21:50, 18 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Childe Rowland

Not notable - we don't need an article for a verse from King Lear - and although I recall this verse being the subject of The Dark Tower (series) of books, it still doesn't need its own article...especially seeing as of now, the only content is the verse in question. Delete Nick04 20:11, 3 Mar 2005 (UTC)

• Delete (or possibly redirect to King Lear?) Otherwise we are going to get everyone's favourite verse. It should already be in wikisource anyway. The JPS 20:19, 3 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Note from article creator:
Wow, that's some fast turn around time. Anyway, I made the article because there was an empty link to it on the Widdershins page. I was considering posting Brown's poem "Childe Rowland To the Dark Tower Came", but was unsure if posting the entire content of a poem, albeit one in the public domain, was appropriate. To wit, if you think the article should go, I recommend removing the link on the Widdershins page.

• Redirect to King Lear; could also redirect to the Browning poem Childe Rowland to the Dark Tower Came; it could also be made into an article about the English fairy tale from which the Shakespeare lines come (in ballad form; the editor of my Riverside edition believes these lines are from a lost ballad). Here is a source on the fairy tale: [1] Childe Rowland gets a respectable number of Google hits. Antandrus 00:52, 4 Mar 2005 (UTC)
• Delete this, but if the Widdershins article is anything to go by, then there's potential for a good article under this title. For that reason I do not think it should be a redirect. Maybe put it on requested artciles (because we all know how effective that is). And to the anon above, welcome to wikipedia. Posting the entire content of a poem is not encouraged in wikipedia. If the poem is copyrighted then it's very bad, but even if it isn't (as in this case) it belongs in another project, Wikisource. I don't know much about wikisource, my wiki involvedment is limited to pedia, but I'm sure someone can help you out if you're interested. We would welcome an article on said poem here, with a few excerpts, but not the whole thing. There are plenty of articles on poems you can look at to see what we're looking for. -R. fiend 21:57, 4 Mar 2005 (UTC)
• This is sounding like some sort of disambig, mentioning Lear, the Browning poem, etc.. -- Jmabel | Talk 07:48, Mar 6, 2005 (UTC)
• Turn into a requested article if no-one expands it. With Shakespeare and Browning touching on the subject, there is definitely potential for an interesting article. Capitalistroadster 10:40, 6 Mar 2005 (UTC)
• Either redirect or expand, but keep the title active - David Gerard 16:17, 8 Mar 2005 (UTC)

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