Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Last Poems

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 on a Votes for Undeletion nomination). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was keep. Good work, people. DS 12:21, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Last Poems

Title refers to a book by Alfred Edward Housman but content is just a bad copy/paste of a single poem from it. Since I don't know the subject well, I don't know whether this particular book is good or not. Article was rewritten since nomination. -- Rune Welsh | ταλκ | Esperanza 15:19, 10 October 2005 (UTC)

• Comment the book deserves an entry (but not under this title). It's notable at least for the much-quoted Epitaph on an army of mercenaries

These, in the day when heaven was falling,

The hour when Earth's foundations fled,

Followed their mercenary calling

And took their wages and are dead. Dlyons493 Talk 16:27, 10 October 2005 (UTC)

• Delete unless someone replaces the current text with an actual article. Current text could go to wikisource if someone wanted to take the time to format it and do a transwiki.Keep the rewrite.--Isotope23 18:34, 10 October 2005 (UTC)
  • In the Housman article Last Poems is dated at 1922, in which case under U.S. law it is still in copyright until 2017 (publication + 95 years for works before 1978-01-01). MCB 03:52, 11 October 2005 (UTC)
    • That is incorrect. See US Copyright law. All works before 1923 are in the public domain. Xoloz 08:11, 11 October 2005 (UTC)
      • Unless the copyright was renewed in time, which Last Poems was, in 1950 (note the copyright page via Amazon). --Kgf0 19:21, 11 October 2005 (UTC)
      • Yes, that sentence in US Copyright Law is shockingly incorrect. Admittedly 17 USC 304 is hard to read, but that's just not right at all, considering the renewal provision. MCB 22:33, 11 October 2005 (UTC)
        • The sentence in the article is correct, I think, and all charts listing copyright expirations affirm. The Sonny Bono Act did not restore lapsed rights. A work published in 1922, renewed in 1950, had its copyright lapse on Dec. 31, 1998, before the effective date of the Sonny Bono act (July 1, 1999). All works published in the US prior to 1923 are in the public domain. Housman, published 1922, is no exception. Xoloz 05:25, 12 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep I've rewritten it now. Not sure if I should retitle it to something like Last Poems (A. E. Housman) - any thoughts? Dlyons493 Talk 22:36, 10 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep as rewritten. MCB 03:52, 11 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep as rewritten. -- Rune Welsh | ταλκ | Esperanza 10:22, 11 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep since the rewrite.--Alhutch 16:13, 11 October 2005 (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 an undeletion request). No further edits should be made to this page.