Talk:List of poets

message: I disambiguated Seneca to Seneca the Elder, based on the dates already on this page. However, I'm not certain if it was intended to be Seneca the Elder, or Seneca the Younger -- more commonly known as "Seneca", who is a much more famous author. If someone knows, please say so and correct if necessary. -Anthropos 18:26, 31 Dec 2003 (UTC)
thread_title:  Seneca? 

message: I know nothing abt poets, but i've removed 
*Peele (Batsabe Sings)
from both List of poets#P and  List of people by name: Pe#Pec-Pee
since there is no WP article, and i found nothing on Google. --Jerzy
(t) 16:11, 2004 Mar 15 (UTC)
I know nothing abt poets, but i've removed 
*Metcalf, Paul, (Melville's grandson)
from List of people by name: Mes-Mez#Meta - Metc and 
*Paul Metcalf (Melville's grandson)
from List of poets#Me, since 
: there is no WP article,
: Google gives 
:: 261 of about 496 for "Paul Metcalf " Melville OR poet
: and the first page of Google is enuf to reveal that our informant didn't pay enough attention to get the right generation (and may be as wrong about notability). 
(Gosh, i thot i had never been to this article, let alone this talk.  But i already got suspicious when i noticed the "various topics" heading....  Well, i guess i'm a pseudo-poetic busybody.)
--Jerzy(t) 18:35, 2004 Sep 21 (UTC)
Guess i just can't quit:
fixed L.E. Sisson to L.E. Sissman; the bad name is apparently widely propagated as "Sisson" by WP; probably originates with using a bad proof, or mistranscription, by David Isaacson in a review of a book, whose index is on Amazon with only the correct spelling shown. --Jerzy•t 05:14, 4 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unknown poets on the page 

message: Is there some way we can standardize the brief tags listed after each poet's name and dates?  I've removed all the tags that just say "poet" because they seemed redundant given that the page is a list of poets.  Others tags (for instance, the Margaret Atwood tag) have "poet and xxx," which makes more sense but still bothers me.  And instead of tags like "Italian poet" for Dante, should we just write something like "Italian"?  Or do we even have to list a nationality given that there are specfic lists for that?
--Psp 22:40, 29 Nov 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Standardization 

message: A-D sections have been cloned. Avia 06:46, 23 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cloning 

message: I have just been reading the biography of Vikram Seth.  Why is he not listed in the English language poets?
202.173.173.105 15:30, 21 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  List of English language poets 

message: WayneRay 17:14, 1 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Dead Link Red Tags

message: Dead Links have been removed, if you wrote this article please add full articles for each new link, don't just list names where no information exists and please put dates with the names. Thanks WayneRay 18:05, 15 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Update

message: There is a duplicate site called Lists of poets, if it is not different than this one then should it not be Merged or deleted , it contains the same links? WayneRay 15:27, 29 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Lists of poets

message: Red and Dead  link cleanup is complete. Articles should accompany the links from now on, also please put dates beside the names on this main page. WayneRay 11:04, 18 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Dead Link Cleanup Complete

message: Could we create a list of poets by religion?
--Mmlazar 13:27, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Religious Poets 

message: There are a few female poets on the List of Female Poets page that are not listed here so I am attempting to consolidate the list.  This is a major issue on Wikipedia and there should not be any reason why there are two lists.Petercannon usf (talk) 16:35, 17 January 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Consolidation of page with female poets