Talk:Thomas Bastard

A short article, but very well written. Thank you. John H. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.63.86.128 (talk) 12:22, 19 April 2012 (UTC)

Proposed link to Thomas Bastard poems
Dear Sir or Madam, In the summer of 2009, you removed a number of links to poets included in the online anthology www.verse.fr. At first we thought this was nuisance interference, but we quickly realized that you are an editor and that there was a rationale behind your deletions -- indeed it was thanks to you that we understood better how Wikipedia policies work. Since the summer of 2009, there has been no Wikipedia link to verse.fr for any poet whatsoever, and that is perhaps as it should be. We certainly do not wish to insist (which in any case would be useless), but we would like to ask a question. Although it includes famous poets, a very large part of verse.fr is devoted to poets and poetry that are extremely little known. The Wikipedia article on Robert de Reims, for instance, currently has no link of any sort to any text by him -- and it is probably impossible to find an acceptable, legible text by this poet online, except at verse.fr. The same is true of the poems of Thomas Bastard and many others. In some cases a poem or two can be found, but verse.fr is the only place where a larger (and ever-growing) number of poems is grouped. In many cases the poems in question have been typed directly out of contemporary, out-of-print books from the 16th, 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. The texts are not scanned and are as close to faultless as scholars get. Verse.fr is a free non-profit online anthology of English, French and Latin verse. It does not have any sort of advertising, never has done and never will. Do you think it would be possible to permit a link to verse.fr for rare poets who cannot easily be found elsewhere? Whatever your response, thank you for your attention. Toule9 Toule9 (talk) 17:58, 13 July 2013 (UTC)