Wikiquote:Votes for deletion archive/The Sonnets


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: keep. —LrdChaos (talk) 14:22, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

The Sonnets
This began life as an ordinary WQ page of quotations from Shakespeare's sonnets, but in June 2005 it was expanded to include the entire texts of all 154 of them. Later this complete text was split between eight new articles, and The Sonnets was turned into a navigation page. And yet the complete Sonnets had all along been available at Wikisource. Since our version of The Sonnets is completely redundant I suggest that it be deleted, along with the eight pages it directs us to, so that someone can start collecting quotes again from scratch. The only alternative seems to be for someone to go through all 2156 lines cutting out the duff ones. Antiquary 23:14, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

—LrdChaos (talk) 14:13, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Vote closed. Result: keep (seven votes to keep). My recommendation is to redirect the aux. pages instead of outright deleting them, and the overall consensus was to restore actual content but generally not fulltexts. I'll leave a note on the Talk page to that effect.
 * Well, it looks like that was already done beforehand I just didn't notice. —LrdChaos (talk) 14:22, 25 January 2007 (UTC)


 * Keep this page, but delete the auxiliary pages which merely duplicate the compilation which belongs at Wikisource. I will work on this page sometime in the next week, from the base upon which it was begun, and try to compile a page of quotes from the sonnets, with perhaps a couple of the more famous sonnets quoted in full, as copyright is not an issue. Kalki 23:38, 17 January 2007 (UTC)


 * By all means keep on those terms. Antiquary 23:43, 17 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep. - InvisibleSun 04:55, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep, per Kalki. ~ UDScott 13:46, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep per Kalki. I have a concern about full sonnet quotation, even without copyright concerns, because our focus should be pithy excerpts, not entire works. But sonnets and many poems (and some songs) are short enough to make it hard to draw a line, so I've typically overlooked the question. I see this generating more content disputes as Wikiquote expands, but we've got enough to worry about as it is, eh? &#9786; ~ Jeff Q (talk) 02:32, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep per Kalki. Koweja 04:41, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep but trim, per the above. —LrdChaos (talk) 15:53, 22 January 2007 (UTC)


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