Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/How to Write Haiku

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 delete:
Close the door early.
The tears of the tendentious
melting WP:SNOW.
Nandesuka 15:27, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] How to Write Haiku

Or rather, How to write very short poems in English that some people regard as haiku. And if I seem opinionated, so does the writer ("I"), as he or she writes for "you". Perhaps these points could be worked on, but the article is doomed, as Wikipedia articles should not include instruction - advice (legal, medical, or otherwise), suggestions, or contain "how-to"s. -- Hoary 03:28, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

• Delete per WP:NOT a how-to guide, WP:OR, WP:NPOV, WP:V, and probably a few more. --Daniel Olsen 03:36, 31 August 2006 (UTC)
• Delete. Wikipedia's not a how-to guide. I remember there was a professional opinion (in Atlantic Monthly perhaps? It's archived and not accessible anymore I think.) that if the Haiku form (which isn't just about the 5-7-5 stance) were to be ported to English, it would end up being something like 2-3-2. ColourBurst 03:49, 31 August 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per above. Resolute 03:50, 31 August 2006 (UTC)
• Wikipedia
  Is not a how-to, so thus
  I say transwiki

  I just had to do that before someone else did. Daniel Case 04:14, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

  • It's copyvio
    Elmer tells us; now I vote
    For speedy delete.
    Daniel Case 13:54, 31 August 2006 (UTC)
• Speedy Delete Nothing resembling encyclopedic, and a copyvio to boot. About as clear-cut an AfD candidate as they come. -Elmer Clark 04:24, 31 August 2006 (UTC)
  • Sadness as month ends:
    Criterion A8 is
    not satisfied here.

    Uncle G 08:28, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

• Delete or transwiki. "How to write haiku"???

There's only two rules -
Meter is five, seven, five;
Meaning is oblique.

And well done to Daniel for getting there first! Grutness...wha? 05:58, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

"Summer" they report?
Late winter here in the south!
And still I say delete

Grutness...wha? 00:11, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

• Delete, the article's title says it all: WP:NOT a how to. --Kinu ^t/_c 06:02, 31 August 2006 (UTC)
• Wikipedia
  Should delete this article
  Before summer ends. --Metropolitan90 07:06, 31 August 2006 (UTC)
• Elmer Clark points out:
  Copyrighted text is not
  what Wikibooks wants.

  Uncle G 08:28, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

• Speedily delete
  This original research
  Plus it's a how-to
  Just zis Guy you know? 13:56, 31 August 2006 (UTC)
• Delete And I'm sulking because I didn't get here first!!!!! Marcus22 14:59, 31 August 2006 (UTC)
• Delete as a copyvio oh and someone BJAODN this AfD. Whispering^(talk/b) 17:14, 31 August 2006 (UTC)
• It's my first haiku
  I hope I got it all right
  in that case, delete
  – Elisson • Talk 19:25, 31 August 2006 (UTC)
• Delete and it's BJAODNed. Tony Fox (arf!) 20:22, 31 August 2006 (UTC)
• Wikipedia
  is not a how to guide, dude.
  My vote is Delete. Danny Lilithborne 00:00, 1 September 2006 (UTC)
• Speedy delete as copyvio, and to stop the AFD Haiku madness. Yomangani^talk 01:39, 1 September 2006 (UTC)
• Delete as a how-to guide, and sorry, I'm a prosaist and not a poet, so I'm turning to my trusty Perl interpreter:

  Ryonen departs

  under an oak. A duck. Two

  swallows flying west.

  Bankei's commentary...

  Wikipedia is not for how-to guides and copyvios

  (Sayings of Mysterious Compiler: line ???)

  • --wwwwolf (barks/growls) 12:54, 1 September 2006 (UTC)
• I want to vote keep/just to say I wrote haiku/that was not like yours. --badlydrawnjeff talk 00:03, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. 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.