Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Visioner's Tale

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Not only no google hits for title, but frgments of the first line and one middle line get nothing. Nothing even remotely similar in The Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, edited from numerous manuscripts by the Rev. Walter W. Skeat (2nd ed.) (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1899). 7 vols., or the newer EChaucer at the University of Maine. Originally copied from an anon creation in 2005 at Simple Wikipedia. T L Miles (talk) 14:49, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

This AfD nomination was incomplete. It is listed now. DumbBOT (talk) 12:09, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

Delete. This is probably a hoax. That it is "generally omitted from most editions of the Canterbury Tales" on account of being a fragment (my copy includes fragments; why not this one?) is an extraordinary claim, and as such requires extraordinary evidence; I see no evidence whatsoever. The author claims that it is to be found only in academic commentaries; that's a weird claim, and certainly not supported by Google Scholar. If I had access to better academic databases, I could be certain enough to recommend a G3 speedy, which I imagine will be the end result anyway. AnturiaethwrTalk 16:00, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

I'll also point out that the poem is not at all typical of Chaucer's style (at least as I remember it), and I'm fairly sure he never used the word synchicity. AnturiaethwrTalk 18:00, 9 June 2008 (UTC)