Talk:Mending Wall

message: First Use of "Good Fences..."
I'm not sure I like the recent changes by Al001 - for a start, I *think* that frost is the first source for "good fences make good neighbors" - which makes a nonsense of the change to the ironic status of this remark. In other words, it was not a proverb until frost publicised it. --Tomandlu 15:22, 9 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Good fences 

message: Isn't there a problem with Wikipedia "publishing" this copyrighted poem without permission? Robertsteadman 06:48, 22 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The entire poem is certainly in the public domain.  It was printed in a book in 1914 in the USA.  Copyright has expired for anything published in the USA before 1923.  The text here, FWIW, was only a brief excerpt from a much longer poem (see the external link), not the entire poem.  The text of the book is available from Gutenberg.  The full poem is at Wikisource.  It's public domain.  Smerdis of Tlön 18:14, 12 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Copyright problem

message: I suggest this article should be deleted. There ism, as stated above, copyright issues and therer seems little purpose to the article. It isn't a particularly famous poem (is it?). Does it deserve an article of its own? Robertsteadman 18:06, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It already exists at wikisource here, so I don't really know why we need an article on it.  For example, most of Poe's works don't have articles either.  They are linked from a list of works to the wikisource. Syrthiss 19:12, 8 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Delete

message: This article was the subject of an AfD discussion closed on 13 June 2006.  The result was Keep. Xoloz 16:11, 13 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: A poor decision based on an incorrect interpretation of the laws of copyright. This isn't the end  - let's hope things are sorted before WP is sued. I'm guessing there are many similar cases through WP. Robertsteadman 17:38, 13 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: AfD Result Notice

message: I don't believe the poem text belong in this article. The article guide suggests that only short poems should be included and that longer poems belong on sister projects such as Wikisource. Perhaps we can remove the poem text, put a link to the text on a different site, and use this article to discuss the poem's history, significance, etc. Mrathel (talk) 17:11, 3 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Which is the article guide you referred to? I looked at Wikipedia:Lyrics and poetry which does not talk about length of the text to include. Jay (talk) 12:06, 30 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Poem Text 

message: Considered metaphorical by whom? I'm planning on changing the article's first sentence to take out the word metaphorical from metaphorical poem. --Uncle Ed (talk) 18:07, 5 November 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: agreed; there is no reason that it should be labeled "metaphorical" in the description. Good call. Mrathel (talk) 18:16, 5 November 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Oh, and I have taken the courtesy of removing the poem text, which I am sure I will probably have to do again in a few weeks:) There is already a link to Wikisource in the article; that is what wikisource is for. Wikipedia is for encyclopedia articles. Mrathel (talk) 18:20, 5 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Interpretation