Talk:To a Mouse

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I love the works of Burns but I don't think that this article is any good at the moment. If it was a critical discussion of the poem that would be fine; even if it was an example of something that would be okay; but a straight copy of the poem has no place in this project. After all it's supposed to be an encyclopedia not a poetry book. This should be moved to WikiSource -- Derek Ross 19:24, 26 Mar 2004 (UTC)

This was wikisourced back in April 2005, and the article deleted. As such I am assuming it is a candidate for Speedy Deletion as recreated content and I'm tagging it as such. Soundguy99 15:35, 5 Jun 2005 (UTC)

• Saw it on the log just now, but you beat me to it. --Dmcdevit 20:04, 5 Jun 2005 (UTC)

• I came looking for 'the mouse poem by Robert Burns' and found this page off the RB page. It's vital to that page. I don't find the page in wikisource, so this page shouldn't go till it's there and isn't going to be arbitrarily deleted 'cos it's uninteresting or not part of a complete set. --

[edit] To a Mouse name?

I was taught the name of this poem was To A Mouse, On Turning Her Up in her Nest, With the Plough, November, 1785  ? Traslaen 23:01, 13 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] References in popular culture?

Might want to include some notable references in popular culture. F'rinstance, I remember on Batman the Bookworm corrected Batman's recitation "The best-laid plans of mice and men..." (This is OR and should be researched and cited if it's to be added to the main page.) --Davecampbell 23:10, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Poem text

I was able to get a copy of the poem onto the site, but dont have enough time to format it properly. Anyone with some experience with html should clean it up a bit.

Gas-Can

If you look at the page history, you will see that several people have already tried to put a copy of the poem onto the site, and it has always been taken off again. There is a reason for this: Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, and is a place for articles about the poem, not for copies of the poem itself. Copies of the poem itself belong on Wikisource; as you can see, there is a link at the bottom of the article to the page on Wikisource that has the text of "To a Mouse". --Paul A 02:00, 23 November 2006 (UTC)