Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/War of the Oaken Bucket


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.  

The result was: keep, non admin-closing. Issues here have been sorted out and the nominator does not object to closing. No one suggested deletion. Moreschi Request a recording? 20:06, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

War of the Oaken Bucket

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Page created by a blocked user, no references anywhere, etc., etc. Jouster (  whisper  ) 23:02, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Comment It's just possible this war might have happened, improbable as it sounds (compare the War of Jenkins' Ear). There certainly is a mock-heroic poem on the theme by Tassoni, La secchia rapita (usually translated The Rape of the Bucket because it influenced Alexander Pope's The Rape of the Lock). The article seems to have taken some information from this site offering Tassoni's tongue-in-cheek epic. But "La guerra della secchia" itself only yields 8 Google hits, one of them a forum user asking whether it really existed (sadly there is no reply). Needs more research. --Folantin 08:06, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Suggested solution It's hard to tell if this was real or just a popular legend. I suggest we create an article on La secchia rapita and merge this page there. There is already some information about the poem in the article on Tassoni (unfortunately none of it is referenced) so we could use that too. Any unsourced material about the war could be moved to the talk page until references are found. In fact, I had just gone ahead and created a page for La secchia rapita. --Folantin 11:07, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Support That sounds like a great solution. This page can be re-created if needed and referenced. Jouster  (  whisper  ) 06:05, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Update OK, I've moved the information to the talk page of La secchia rapita pending sourcing. I suggest we now turn War of the Oaken Bucket into a redirect to that page. --Folantin 08:52, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Update I have now implemented this change. Barring opposition, AfD can go away now (admin?).  Jouster  (  whisper  ) 16:24, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.