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The result was O, I am slain!‎ -insert valid name here- (talk) 02:45, 2 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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William Shakespeare[edit]

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I am so sick of the fact we have to read Shakespeare in school. Being forced to read stories that are so old that they are irrelevant to and needless for our times is bad enough, like any other classic literature, but what makes this egregious is that the so-called "English" is so HARD TO READ! No one writes like that anymore, so why force us to read it? Teachers could've made us read modern business or academic papers for teaching English at maximum level, NOT THIS! To quote a certain 2000s pop punk song, "I don't need to read Billy Shakespeare, meet Juliet or Malvolio. Feel for once what it's like to rebel now. I want to break out, let's go!" ^{[April Fools!]} ❤︎PrincessPandaWiki (talk | contribs) 00:00, 1 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete. Fails WP:N and WP:AUTHOR as he is a non-notable author. My WP:BEFORE search turned up nothing. -KAP03 (^{Talk • Contributions • Email}) 00:22, 1 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete. Is not using proper English. Ｍｏｄ ｃｒｅａｔｏｒ 🏡 🗨 📝 00:25, 1 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Delete I preach, for thine soughts hold water. Such goal equates benefit. Spell! Diriector_Doc├─────┤^Talk_Contribs 01:06, 1 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Comment: To be, or not to be, that is the question. S5A-0043^Talk 05:34, 1 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Deleteth thine article, as thou art naught with notability. Xeroctic (talk) 06:23, 1 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Delete and replace with Geoffrey Chaucer, this stuff was good. AlphaBeta135 _talk 11:19, 1 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

redirect to frankenstien, the objectively better piece of literature for high schoolers. -Astral~(he/him/his) 12:24, 1 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Redirect to either Sir Francis Bacon, Edward de Vere, Christopher Marlowe or William Stanley. I'll let someone else figure out which one. 57.140.16.57 (talk) 14:58, 1 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

  Surely this won't reinstate the contentious topics designation. ~~JDONmy soul (Sticking out your gyatt for Nerizzler) 18:27, 1 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Redirect to Princess Peach: Showtime! Nintendo once again do what Shakepeare don't.Planetberaure (talk) 16:31, 1 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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