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In recent years, there’s been more discussion of Yeats and his favorable view towards fascism. I realize this is briefly touched upon (and buried deep) in this article, but given recent scholarship, I think more needs to be said. Viriditas (talk) 19:49, 29 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
There is nothing in the infobox that cannot be conveyed in the lede. And the arbitrary assignment of him to the Victorian period is an example of how the nuance is lost. Kablammo (talk) 15:24, 14 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
The age can be ascertained from the first line by simple arithmetic; the locale of his death can be put in, but I don't see that it is important for the lede, and is given below. Kablammo (talk) 17:58, 14 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
To supply the facts around birth and death is standard for encyclopedias. An infobox can actually free the prose from that clutter (what country was the birth place in history when the person was born ...?) , and whoever doesn't want to look there could simply not look. For others, it might be helpful, as recently discussed and accepted for Mozart and James Joyce. What to put in an infobox, besides those general facts, is a different discussion. As little as possible. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:12, 15 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
I wasn't aware of these discussions on the talk page in regards to adding an infobox prior to attempting to add one today (perhaps natively, I just assumed no one had bothered to add one), but I have to say as someone who regularly edits and creates Irish biographical articles I find it most unusual that some editors are advocating for no infobox at all when infoboxes are de facto parts of almost all individual biographical pages on Wikipedia. Gerda Arendt makes a good point in clarifying that whether or not this article should have an infobox at all, and what information should be in the infobox, are two very separate conversations. It's perfectly possible for Yeats to have an infobox that doesn't have a "period" line at all, if things like the period input are the point of contention. CeltBrowne (talk) 04:39, 24 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]
If you (and the ip above) think boxes are "parts of almost all individual biographical pages on Wikipedia" you are just wrong. Maybe you spend your time looking at politicians or sportspeople. An indication of the problems is that the one you added is rather long, but gives no indication at all that he ever wrote a line of poetry. Amazing. Johnbod (talk) 14:17, 24 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]
but gives no indication at all that he ever wrote a line of poetry. Amazing
You don't have to be curt. I actually tried to use Infobox writer as the primary input with infobox officeholder added as an additional module, however infobox writer wouldn't allow a module to be added. I'm only realising now I should have used infobox person, and added both infobox writer and infobox officeholder as modules, which would have worked.
Once again, I wasn't aware of any previous attempts to add an infobox prior to my edit and what I added wasn't intended to be prefect, it was intended to give basic info and then for other editors to add in additional details.
This circles back to the point that whether or not the article should an infobox, and what goes in the infobox are two separate conversations. If an infobox is added and it's imperfect, the solution is not to remove it, but to improve it.
Maybe you spend your time looking at politicians or sportspeople.
Here are some people I'm looking at for comparison:
What, so you can go off there & start the same? No, thanks! Are Irish writers a species apart? That you can even put forward such a proposed box (even without thinking it "prefect") shows (as usual) the infobox proposer has no interest in the subject at all, and if there were to be a box, negotiating the right contents would be like wading through truculent treacle - see Mozart. Johnbod (talk) 14:40, 25 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Nothing in an infobox would make the rest of the article cease to exist. Why are you opposed to a section of the article that makes it easier to glean key points and basic info? Brad (talk) 23:55, 12 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Agreed. I have no idea why it keeps being reverted. An infobox is the de facto for every single person of note and helps readers gather quick information without having to read the entire article, like birth and death dates. Fellow Irish writers like Oscar Wilde and James Joyce have infoboxes like @CeltBrowne pointed out. The consensus is outdated and pointless. I think this is because some users are too stubborn to add something as mundane as an infobox. Cburt777 (talk) 14:55, 8 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Is there really a "longstanding consensus" that there should be no infobox? Does anyone aside from @Kablammo and @Johnbod object? Do either of these two users have an actual, valid reason other than tradition? Many other writers and poets have infoboxes. In fact, the only "category" I know of that actually has a (however imperfect) consensus against infoboxes is composers. Brad (talk) 23:54, 12 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
And artists, philosophers etc. The "de facto norm" argument so prominent here was completely exploded by the recent proposal to put this in policy, which failed miserably (I'm on holiday, you'll have to find the link yourself). Johnbod (talk) 09:22, 13 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I just checked, off the top of my head, Picasso, Monet, O'Keeffe, Sartre, Plato, and Nietzsche, and they all have infoboxes. Brad (talk) 21:14, 14 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
D. P. Moran's assessment of Yeats
At the end of the section on Yeats' political views, there is the following sentence: 'D. P. Moran called him a minor poet and "crypto-Protestant conman.' I don't understand how this is relevant to Yeats' political views. The sentence as such only appears to express views on Yeats' literary merit, degree of religious orthodoxy and general moral character. If the idea is that a negative comment by Moran, given Moran's own political positions, is somehow diagnostic of what political position the disliked person had, this is surely too far-fetched. If Moran did say more about Yeats' politics specifically, then that is what should be quoted/retold, not just this quote. 87.126.21.225 (talk) 20:08, 24 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Composer Marjorie Rusche Also Set Yeats’ Text to Music
There are many poems of Yeats set to music. How do we choose them? How do we limit them? And what does the work of another artist—who set the words to music decades later—contribute to our knowledge of Yeats? I oppose any mention of them in this article. Kablammo (talk) 00:21, 17 October 2023 (UTC)Modifying my previous comment: Such information may be useful to show his legacy and influence, but should be limited to those purposes, and not devolve into a listing of such works. Kablammo (talk) 12:25, 17 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
I agree with Gerda and Kablammo; its a beautiful piece of music, but the claim belongs on the Rusche article, esp as the proposed citations are primary. However, am inclined to include the Waterboys, especially as "when ye go away" is very well known, and the Yeats connection has often been refereed to by critics. Ceoil (talk) 00:43, 18 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
W.B. Yeats lived at Bedford park, Chiswick, London. On his way to work, he would walk past the island in the Thames known as Chiswick Eyot; and he said it reminded him of Innisfree. So indeed one of the greatest poems in the English language has its roots in Chiswick, London. Chuzzlewitty (talk) 06:01, 5 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
"... is an uninhabited island within Lough Gill, in Ireland, near which Yeats spent his summers as a child. Yeats describes the inspiration for the poem coming from a "sudden" memory of his childhood while walking down Fleet Street in London in 1888. He writes, "I had still the ambition, formed in Sligo in my of living in imitation of Thoreau on Innisfree, a little island in Lough Gill, and when walking through Fleet Street very homesick I heard a little tinkle of water and saw a fountain in a shop-window which balanced a little ball upon its jet, and began to remember lake water. From the sudden remembrance came my poem "Innisfree," my first lyric with anything in its rhythm of my own music. I had begun to loosen rhythm as an escape from rhetoric and from that emotion of the crowd that rhetoric brings, but I only understood vaguely and occasionally that I must for my special purpose use nothing but the common syntax. A couple of years later I could not have written that first line with its conventional archaism—"Arise and go"—nor the inversion of the last stanza."[1].."
W. B. Yeats died in Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, not in Menton
The present article says: "He died at the Hôtel Idéal Séjour, in Menton, France, on 28 January 1939, aged 73. He was buried after a discreet and private funeral at Roquebrune-Cap-Martin." The reference cites the NY Times obituary.
1) The NY Times says: "NICE, France, Jan. 29.--The death of William Butler Yeats, famous Irish poet and playwright, occurred yesterday near Mentone. Mr. Yeats, who won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1923, was 73 years old." And 'near Menton' is different than 'in Menton'. Roquebrune-Cap-Martin and Menton are two separate towns.
2) In the Roquebrune-Cap-Martin's Death Register, Yeats' death certificate [1] states (my translation): "On January 28th, 1939 at 2:30 PM died avenue Virginie Hériot, Hôtel Idéal Beauséjour, William Butler Yeats [...]". The certificate is signed by Fernand Torthe, mayor of Roquebrune-Cap-Martin.
4) The only mention of 'Menton' in Yeat's death certificate is related to the undertaker's domicile, who officially declared Yeat's death at 6 PM the same day. Billancourt (talk) 08:08, 1 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]