Talk:The Fox and the Crow (Aesop)

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I have the fable in front of me right now, but the crow's gender is female, not male. 71.134.249.173 (talk) 03:57, 16 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Hits for this article are more than for the article on the cartoon characters. In addition, Aesop's fable has a longer and more international history than the cartoon. It is therefore proposed to make this article here the main one, without the defining (Aesop), and to redirect the present The Fox and the Crow to one defined by (cartoon). This will be done by the end of October if there is no discussion of the matter by then. Mzilikazi1939 (talk) 18:56, 14 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Edit warring[edit]

An anonymous IP persists in inserting an item against several editing guidelines and has just been blocked for edit warring. The version of Fontaine's fable he wishes to highlight appeared in the The American Oxonian in Spring, 2012 -

A crow in a tree held some cheese in his beak,
And the scent drew a fox, who decided to speak.
"What a day ! Master Crow , you're a marvelous sight !
If your voice is as fine as your feathers are bright
You'd beat peacocks and nightingales both with your spell !"
At this praise the crow beamed, puffed his chest to sing well,
Opened wide his great beak -----and of course the cheese fell.
The fox pounced, took th food, said "My good Master Crow,
When you're flattered, beware. That's a leson to know
Which is well worth some cheese." The crow, 'shamed to be schooled,
Resolved, somewhat late, never more to be fooled.

The story has already been told in brief in the article and the final four lines of another recent American translation by Norman Shapiro (1997) has also been quoted. It would therefore seem that quoting all of yet another American version violates WP:UNDUE. No translator's name is offered, but the verse's doggerel nature and unfaithfulness to the original suggest that it lacks WP:NOTABILITY too. The edit is therefore completely unnecessary. Sweetpool50 (talk) 11:43, 24 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]