Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Twelfth Night a textual problem

This page is an archive of the discussion surrounding the proposed deletion of the page entitled Twelfth Night - a textual problem.

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The result of the debate was to delete the article.

Don't think it is worth a separate entry. There're tens of thousands of textual problems in Shakespeare, this one isn't exactly important. At best move and merged with Twelfth Night. No insights; no hope of any expansion. Delete? Mandel - May 10, 2004
 * Lean towards keep. It seems like a project someone started and never finished. Linked from two articles. Perhaps someone could fill it out with info from the ext. link.  It may be an enlightening example.  Maybe wants renamed; Pope's motives for editing Shakespeare aren't a "textual problem" in the usual sense, in that it isn't about figuring what Bill S. actually wrote from the mess he left behind.  Smerdis of Tlön 16:34, 10 May 2004 (UTC)
 * FWIW, the Geocities link is dead, so I have no way of knowing what the theory about Pope's edit was. Merge and delete.  Smerdis of Tlön 00:11, 11 May 2004 (UTC)
 * Either merge with Twelfth Night (as suggested by Mandel) or delete. Sid 17:06, 10 May 2004 (UTC)
 * Merge with Twelfth Night Alcarillo 19:55, 10 May 2004 (UTC)


 * Huh? What is there to keep?  A long quote form the play, one sentence about a change made by someone not Shakespeare (yes, I know who he is), and a link to an external site that isn't even there anymore?  Delete with extreme prejudice.  RickK 01:08, 11 May 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. Agreed w/ RickK. Wile E. Heresiarch 04:35, 11 May 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete, unless someone explains why this textual problem is important. Andris 17:34, May 11, 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete, but make a small note on the main page for this play about the significance of textual errors.--152.163.253.97 22:41, 11 May 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. No merge is involved; the article contains no useful information: the fact that Pope changed "sound" to "south" is of no import whatsoever; every editor accepts certain variant readings, and this one is neither important, accepted, or particularly adept. Nor is a "small note" about textual errors appropriate for the main Twelfth Night page: Hershel Baker, who was editor of the Signet edition, wrote that the text of Twelfth Night "is, if not immaculate, so clean and tidy that it presents almost no problems."
 * Delete. Cadr

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