Talk:Slow Dance (poem)

Status of the poem

look just because someone says its a hoaux dosent make it one. what if it is ho cares a poem gets forwarded abunch and the cancer society doesnt have to give up money BIG WHOOP. but what if it isnt a hoax then what we watch a girl with cancer die just because we dont belive that she wrote a poem what is wrong with you peole. but if you are forwarding this thank you and im sure someone somewere appreciates it i know i do not to mention it is a beutiful poem that i evgen think should be published so im going to forward this until someone shows me some proof that it is a hoax.

                      confesser23

Note that this post, timestamped 18:26, 29 December 2011, is the only contribution of User:Confesser23 to date [1]. They have no user page or user talk page. Probably not even worth sending them a reply at this late date. Andrewa (talk) 02:11, 9 September 2013 (UTC)

PROD

I've reverted this all the way back to my original stub. The reverted edits [2] [3] are all by IPs with no other contributions, except for one vandalism-only account with one other (also reverted) contribution, two reversions by ClueBot and one revert by a real contributor. The net result of these "contributions" has been to remove all the original material including the claim to notability, and replace it with a probable copyvio.

The PROD was valid but poorly researched IMO, and the revert addresses the issue raised. Andrewa (talk) 02:01, 9 September 2013 (UTC)

Origin

Any idea when the poem had been written? David's home page seems to have lapsed its registration and is overtaken by advertisers, and I can't seem to find its real origin. Given that he published poetry as books too, I would imagine Slow Dance had been featured in one of them. Some of the page's links have expired as well. The Internet Archive had stored his website, but there's no mention of the original collection.

mmKALLL (talk) 11:34, 21 August 2022 (UTC)

Second PROD

I get three quarter of a million ghits for "Slow Dance" poem, which I think would alone justify challenging the PROD and having an AfD instead.

But it gets worse. Note Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Slow Dance (poem) which closed as keep. PRODing an article after a failed AfD is ridiculous.

But it gets worse. See WP:PROD and note an article or file can be proposed for uncontroversial deletion, but only once... PROD must only be used if no opposition to the deletion is expected... and it may only be placed on a page a single time. (my emphasis)

This second PROD is a complete waste of time. It is blatant forum shopping and perhaps even wp:IDHT. I have raised it on nom's talk page. Andrewa (talk) 14:45, 6 September 2022 (UTC)

The article is poorly sourced (Snopes?!) and the subject appeared unnotable. I didn't check the talk page. My bad. Delete and move on. 162 etc. (talk) 15:16, 6 September 2022 (UTC)

The decision at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Slow Dance (poem) appears to be consensus in support of notability. I think the notability template should be removed from the article in the light of this. Andrewa (talk) 05:18, 11 September 2022 (UTC)

162 etc., by Delete and move on are you agreeing that the notability template should now be removed? If not what does this latest Delete comment mean? Or if so, will you remove it or should I? Andrewa (talk) 04:48, 12 September 2022 (UTC)

An article shouldn't go to PROD twice, and I see the PROD has been removed. I have no comment on other aspects of the article. 162 etc. (talk) 15:43, 12 September 2022 (UTC)

See also #Notability below. Andrewa (talk) 17:28, 31 October 2022 (UTC)

Notability

As stated above, notability appears to have been settled by rough consensus at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Slow Dance (poem). Note also that I did not participate in that discussion, but would have supported the decision.

In view of this I have removed the notability template. The multiple issue template shell should of course go too, but let us first see whether anyone wants to reopen the notability discussion. Andrewa (talk) 17:36, 31 October 2022 (UTC)

And I have now also removed the template shell. Andrewa (talk) 00:01, 3 November 2022 (UTC)