User talk:Cdsmiley

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Hi, I just came by to say what a great article Anne Isabella Milbanke is (it's linked to the front page at the moment in the new articles section - called "did you know"). I'm going to do one thing to it, which is to change the curly quotes and apostrophes into straight ones, which is the house style, but I wanted to let you know how much I'd enjoyed reading the article. I know a little about Byron, but knew almost nothing about his wife.  :) I see that you're new, so here's a welcome message with a bunch of links you might find useful:

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Again, welcome! :) fabiform | talk 10:54, 28 Mar 2004 (UTC)

[edit] She Walks in Beauty

Hi, there. I saw that you appear to be a promising editor, but that your article on the intriguing poem She walks in Beauty is likely being deleted as I type. There's quite a good reason for that; Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, and just including the full text of a poem falls rather outside its scope. (Personally, I find that including it wouldn't hurt, but has possibilities of setting a dangerous precedent... agh, I'm too tired to think about this right now.)

Where it would be appropriate is the admittedly more obscure sister project of Wikisource[1], which deals in just this sort of thing. Unless Lord Byron's works are somehow not in the public domain, of course.

If the poem's notable enough to warrant an article, then one about its metaphors, impact, fame and suchlike could perfectly well include a Wikisource link to the text, but I don't know enough of the author's works to tell. -- Kizor 00:15, 13 Mar 2005 (UTC)

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