Talk:Sympathy (poem)

A fact from Sympathy (poem) appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 12 March 2021 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that a line from the 1899 poem "Sympathy" provided the title for Maya Angelou's autobiography I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings?

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The result was: promoted by Hawkeye7 (talk) 21:44, 7 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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... that a line from the 1899 poem "Sympathy" provided the title for Maya Angelou's autobiography I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings? Source: taken from a line in Paul Laurence Dunbar's poem "Sympathy"

Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Darktown Comics

Created by Eddie891 (talk). Self-nominated at 02:00, 18 February 2021 (UTC).[reply]

I will pick this review up. However, the article is not sourced with multiple paragraphs missing citations. Please can you take a pass at that. Ktin (talk) 03:25, 18 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Whoops, Ktin, I meant to link to Sympathy (poem), which should be in better shape than Sympathy. Eddie891 ^Talk _Work 03:31, 18 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Eddie891: lol. That makes more sense. Starting with the review now. Ktin (talk) 03:44, 18 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: - Offline/paywalled citation accepted in good faith Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: Article meets eligibility criteria (newness, length). Article is well sourced with many offline sources on which I will assume good faith on. Scores quite high on the copyvio report. However, this is because of a review of the poem from a book that is used as-is and the poem itself which is obviously used as-is. Question to the nominator -- is there an issue in quoting the text of the poem as-is? I am not clear on copyright rules in this context? Is it considered alright because the poem is more than 100 years old? QPQ done. Validated the hook's source using the Archive.org link. Passing the baton back to the nominator for a few of these answers. Cheers. Ktin (talk) 04:03, 18 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, Ktin: the poem and the long quote are both in the public domain as they were published before 1926 in the United States. There’s a precedent for including the full text of reasonably short poems that are in the public domain— see my fa O Captain! My Captain! or the recent creation Mother to Son where I do the same. Cheers, Eddie891 ^Talk _Work 11:57, 18 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Approved. Updating review based on above comment. Thanks for the nomination. Ktin (talk) 14:37, 18 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]