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Poe's Law

I created this article because there has been a bit of a dispute about whether "Poe's Law" is worth mentioning on List of eponymous laws. (admins see [1]) There are actually two commonly used meanings [2], and one is about this Poe. There are also other definitions, like

"Poe's law," that a poem should not exceed one hundred lines, appears in his essay "The Philosophy of Composition"

John Vandenberg ( chat) 11:46, 16 November 2008 (UTC) reply

Note I am not suggesting that the dispute should be moved here, or that I support it being included or excluded on Wikipedia. I created this article because the person is reasonably notable, so it helps to have this biog here. John Vandenberg ( chat) 11:49, 16 November 2008 (UTC) reply

Confusion with Nathan Poe

According to the Wikipedia article for "Poe's Law", the phenomonon refers to a comment made by one Nathan Poe on a Christian website in 2005. If that is the case, it would seem to have no connection with Harry Lee Poe.

<ref name=Poe's Law / http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law > — Preceding unsigned comment added by Beetfarm Louie ( talkcontribs) 22:04, 15 March 2011 (UTC) reply

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Poe's Law

I created this article because there has been a bit of a dispute about whether "Poe's Law" is worth mentioning on List of eponymous laws. (admins see [1]) There are actually two commonly used meanings [2], and one is about this Poe. There are also other definitions, like

"Poe's law," that a poem should not exceed one hundred lines, appears in his essay "The Philosophy of Composition"

John Vandenberg ( chat) 11:46, 16 November 2008 (UTC) reply

Note I am not suggesting that the dispute should be moved here, or that I support it being included or excluded on Wikipedia. I created this article because the person is reasonably notable, so it helps to have this biog here. John Vandenberg ( chat) 11:49, 16 November 2008 (UTC) reply

Confusion with Nathan Poe

According to the Wikipedia article for "Poe's Law", the phenomonon refers to a comment made by one Nathan Poe on a Christian website in 2005. If that is the case, it would seem to have no connection with Harry Lee Poe.

<ref name=Poe's Law / http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law > — Preceding unsigned comment added by Beetfarm Louie ( talkcontribs) 22:04, 15 March 2011 (UTC) reply

A Commons file used on this page has been nominated for speedy deletion

The following Wikimedia Commons file used on this page has been nominated for speedy deletion:

You can see the reason for deletion at the file description page linked above. Community Tech bot ( talk) 22:21, 24 June 2018 (UTC) reply


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