Talk:The Visioner's Tale

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[edit] Hoax

There is no such poem as "the Visioner's Tale" outside of this entry; all search-engine hits derive from this entry, no existing collection or bibliography lists such a tale, and a Google book search produces zero hits. Clevelander96 (talk) 12:02, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

not only no google hist 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. T L Miles (talk) 14:44, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

A user who apparently is a sort of "Great Pumpkin" (User:Le Grand Roi des Citrouilles) put back a previously removed link to a site purporting to host an "audio recording" of this "tale," but as was the case before, the link is a dead end and there does not appear to be any audio file. Let me say again, both in wikipedian terms (having searched various reliable online references and source materials) and as a trained Chaucerian, there is no such thing as "The Visioner's Tale" except as a hoax or farce -- WP guidelines would then require that the entry clearly denote it as such, and also meet general standards such as Notablity. I urge that this item be deleted unless it complies with these guidelines. Clevelander96 (talk) 22:55, 11 June 2008 (UTC)