User talk:Grant65/Archive Jan-June 04

unfree labor

I see you have been adding unfree labor to many articles regarding slavery. While it might be an appropriate term, I think it is quite unknown and if you want it to stay there, you should write something about it on the unfree labor page. It has already been removed from the slavery page. --Dittaeva 11:11, 19 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Unfree labour is a generic term for chattel slavery, indenture, debt bondage, peonage, etc. As a practising labour historian, I can assure you that there is now a large body of literature devoted to it; if you still think it's "quite unknown", a simple Google search[1] will produce nearly 3,000 hits. The etymology is "unfree" in the sense of being opposite (e.g.) "free people"; I will write a page on unfree labour shortly. I also think it needs to be mentioned on the slavery page.Grant65 (Talk) 01:57, Mar 20, 2004 (UTC)

Great that you will write the article! I did the Google search beforhand to assure me that it at all existed. Even though you get nearly 3000 hits, I still find it unknown and that's why the article is needed. I am shure that we will find room for it the slavery article, but the unfree labor article is needed to back it up. ---Dittaeva 12:46, 20 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Football

For convenience, this discussion has now been moved to User_talk:Grant65_(football). Cheers.Grant65 (Talk) 03:43, Mar 20, 2004 (UTC)

I don't know of any other surviving public school games. Eton is rather odd as it has a number of sports that are pretty unique to the school, as well as the field game and the wall game there is also Eton Fives which is a form of handball. Mintguy (T)

Grant there is a general convention on Wikipedia (Wikipedia:Wikiquette), that you don't usually edit other people's comments on article talk pages (even for clarity) and you definitely do not delete other people's comments. If you want to make space and delete stuff it should be archived. I understand your reasons for editing the Talk:Football page, but in the process you deleted some of my comments. Mintguy (T)

                           (I hope that you don't mind that I edited your
                            comment, it had said 'but in the process your 
                            deleted...' Me and my alter ego)

Sorry. I hope the tone of the above comment didn't offend. I thought you had deleted stuff when I did a diff for comparision. I'm not really worried anyway, but I thought I would point out that you shouldn't delete other peoples comments on talk pages. Sorry for the confusion. Mintguy (T) 09:52, 2 Apr 2004 (UTC)