Talk:Affranchisement (word)

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Would this be better of in Wiktionary since it's giving the definition of a word? HotshotCleaner (talk) 19:37, 7 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

The article contains more that just a simple dicdef. The word has social context within ancient greek society, as shown through the second paragraph, and I am quite sure that the concept has been used in one form or another in other cultures throughout history. Just because this article contained a rough first draft of an article, that does not mean that a bit more research will uncover vast amounts of information pertaining to the significance of affranchisement throughout history.--Coin945 (talk) 20:15, 7 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Attempts to Wikify[edit]

In this article i have done the following

Disambiguate'd the article
Updated the references to meet the quality standard of Wikipedia. Removed plain HTML Ref's for the same
Added References for usage.
Broke the article into Sections for easier reading
Could not add infobox as I could not find any infobox for english terms.
Added TOI
Categorized the article

Note I am facing some problem with the formatting in the Definitions section. Spent quite some time on it but don't know whats wrong. Help there would be appreciated. Thanks and regards Wikishagnik (talk) 18:42, 12 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Great work on the cleanup of this article. It is hugely improved from what it was days ago. HotshotCleaner (talk) 01:58, 14 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

As creator of this article, I offer the exact same compliment. Wow, it's like you took the words right out of my keyboard... :D--Coin945 (talk) 00:01, 15 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed deletion[edit]

This article probably should not exist. Wikipedia is not a dictionary. The correct place for discussion of words is usually Wiktionary, not here. Discussion of affranchisement in Ancient Greece belongs at Manumission because Wikipedia organizes material by concept, not by name. We do in rare cases cover words themselves, but it's not clear to me why that is warranted in this case. --Srleffler (talk) 04:10, 15 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I have merged the word-related material to Wiktionary, and the Greek historical material to Manumission. I propose to delete this article; it's an orphan and the material is now all covered elsewhere.--Srleffler (talk) 04:42, 15 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

If there are no objections to the prod, then the article had better be redirected to Manumission rather than deleted, in order to preserve attribution. – Uanfala (talk) 13:13, 15 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Good point. Done.--Srleffler (talk) 04:52, 16 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]