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The result was delete. Yunshui 雲 水 10:49, 10 March 2020 (UTC)
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Interesting, but in the end no real definition of "prolific" exists, and the term is used liberally by sources, making this an ill-defined or even undefined list. Wikipedia alone has 177 "prolific poets" [1], and many more who we don't list as such are given this description in reliable sources (e.g. C. S. Lewis [2] or Jorge Luis Borges [3] or Langston Hughes [4]. Fram ( talk) 10:33, 3 March 2020 (UTC)
- Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Lists of people-related deletion discussions. Fram ( talk) 10:33, 3 March 2020 (UTC)
- Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Poetry-related deletion discussions. Fram ( talk) 10:33, 3 March 2020 (UTC)
- I changed the title of article to List of most prolific poets and added a few names. Nikolai Kurbatov ( talk) 14:33, 3 March 2020 (UTC)
- delete the line of "prolific" is not a standard defition, so there is no clear inclusion criteria. John Pack Lambert ( talk) 14:57, 3 March 2020 (UTC)
- Delete - "Most prolific" is too ill-defined and vague for this ever have clear enough inclusion criteria to make a useful list. Rorshacma ( talk) 01:25, 4 March 2020 (UTC)
- Delete - Per above. If we have reliably sourced numbers for people, and if most prolific poets is treated as a group, we could have something more objective like a list of poets by number of published poems. — Rhododendrites talk \\ 05:49, 6 March 2020 (UTC)
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