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Personally, my attitude is live and let live. However, you guys shouldn't be surprised if someone comes along and deletes the full text of the poem. Wikipedia isn't generally considered the place for such things. Just thought You oughta know. - Dhodges 23:35, 4 June 2007 (UTC)
Is the fact that a Whitman poem was used in a commercial really all that relevant to encyclopedic content? I would propose deleting the section, but I'll wait for other opinions.
-- Nemonoman ( talk) 19:22, 15 November 2009 (UTC)
It's nice that the not-so-common word "debouch" in the poem is linked to an article about it (the Wikipedia article). Unfortunately, that article addresses only the noun version of debouch, but the poem uses the word as a verb. So I've changed the link to the Wiktionary page debouch, which defines the verb as well as the noun. Daqu ( talk) 04:36, 8 December 2009 (UTC)
Okay, it's one thing to say that because computer storage is so terribly expensive that this article can't afford to waste space by quoting its subject.
It's another thing entirely to not even link this article to the text of the poem. That makes no sense at all, since it is in the public domain and is almost certainly available on the web.
Come to think of it, it's a famous poem by a famous poet. What exactly is the problem with retaining the text in this article? Oh, the fact that the Levi's commercial is no longer current? That makes lots of sense -- a commercial is the only reason we'd ever want to include a poem in Wikipedia. Obviously. Daqu ( talk) 07:18, 4 January 2010 (UTC)
Really? I've seen the Levi's commercial, and it sounds nothing like Will Geer. I'll admit that I'm only familiar with the work he did in his later years (The Waltons and one episode of Mission: Impossible), but I can't imagine even a young Will Geer sounding like that. He was born in Indiana, and the narrator in the commercial has somewhat of a New York-sounding accent. Anybody have a source for this information, like at least when the recitation by Geer was supposedly recorded? MaxVolume ( talk) 03:53, 12 January 2010 (UTC)
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Personally, my attitude is live and let live. However, you guys shouldn't be surprised if someone comes along and deletes the full text of the poem. Wikipedia isn't generally considered the place for such things. Just thought You oughta know. - Dhodges 23:35, 4 June 2007 (UTC)
Is the fact that a Whitman poem was used in a commercial really all that relevant to encyclopedic content? I would propose deleting the section, but I'll wait for other opinions.
-- Nemonoman ( talk) 19:22, 15 November 2009 (UTC)
It's nice that the not-so-common word "debouch" in the poem is linked to an article about it (the Wikipedia article). Unfortunately, that article addresses only the noun version of debouch, but the poem uses the word as a verb. So I've changed the link to the Wiktionary page debouch, which defines the verb as well as the noun. Daqu ( talk) 04:36, 8 December 2009 (UTC)
Okay, it's one thing to say that because computer storage is so terribly expensive that this article can't afford to waste space by quoting its subject.
It's another thing entirely to not even link this article to the text of the poem. That makes no sense at all, since it is in the public domain and is almost certainly available on the web.
Come to think of it, it's a famous poem by a famous poet. What exactly is the problem with retaining the text in this article? Oh, the fact that the Levi's commercial is no longer current? That makes lots of sense -- a commercial is the only reason we'd ever want to include a poem in Wikipedia. Obviously. Daqu ( talk) 07:18, 4 January 2010 (UTC)
Really? I've seen the Levi's commercial, and it sounds nothing like Will Geer. I'll admit that I'm only familiar with the work he did in his later years (The Waltons and one episode of Mission: Impossible), but I can't imagine even a young Will Geer sounding like that. He was born in Indiana, and the narrator in the commercial has somewhat of a New York-sounding accent. Anybody have a source for this information, like at least when the recitation by Geer was supposedly recorded? MaxVolume ( talk) 03:53, 12 January 2010 (UTC)