PPP: External links

External links (ELs) are an important part of any Penny's Poetry Pages article(s). The great advantage of the Web over conventional textbook learning is the sheer amount and variety of material available, and only ELs can take advantage of that.

ELs are even more important in the case of modern poets and critics, whose work is protected by copyright. In most such cases, it is simply legally impossible to include any of the work in question in the article, while ignoring it completely, or simply giving a paraphrase, will result in an inferior article. The solution is to include an EL, which puts the original poem or article in question a mere click away for the interested reader.

For ELs, then, the general rule is the more, the merrier.

External links in poets' articles

 * Poems

It is advisable, for any article on a poet, that the writer give a sample of his or her work. Article writers can, and are in fact encouraged to, copy their favourite poems (if legally and physically possible) into PPP, either in the body of articles; or as stand-alone poems -- these can either be linked within the article text, or in the "See also" section. In most cases, though, that will not be possible: in the case of public domain poets, there are often too many for a writer to copy onto the wiki at one time, while in the case of copyright-protected poets, few if any of the poems by copyright-protected poets can be contained at all.

So ELs to poems are in most cases advisable, and