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Seeing the enormous number of people mr. IP is adding, it can be worth to start checking the sources. To be true, I don't believe this anymore! The Banner talk 22:46, 28 July 2013 (UTC)
Hi, Banner! I am so happy that you keep up with my edits to this article! However, you are such a critical reviewer, hehehe. My main source is Murdock's "Ethnographic Atlas". I only had partial and partly mistaken versions of this precious book until recently, but now I have the original, almost complete work. I was starting to add many more peoples to the list, beginning with those who employ patrilineal primogeniture and ending with those who employ completely egalitarian inheritance, but your comment has made me reconsider this decision of mine. Perhaps it is excessive to add so many peoples to the lists in this article. Thank you again for your attention :). — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ansegam (talk • contribs) 13:23, 30 July 2013 (UTC)
I ask you for a little patience. Writing in Wikipedia is not my only occupation, I have other things to do as well. I have split the article into different sections as you asked me, and I have also added more peoples to the lists as you wanted. I have to solve the links to disambiguation pages yet, and I assure you I will dedicate all my efforts to it this weekend. Is that ok with you? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ansegam (talk • contribs) 06:47, 2 August 2013 (UTC)
Dozens upon dozens of examples of inheritance systems, very untidily ordered, sourced with hundreds upon hundreds of what seem to be reasonable citations. I've never seen anything like this before. I half want to applaud whoever's responsible for this, but at the same time this really does need to be written as an encyclopaedic article - and at least rearranged heavily. And the cross-referencing - 12 or more individual sources for single words of an article? It's just staggering! (But, of course, ridiculous.) Microphonicstalk 23:16, 5 September 2013 (UTC)
I am making an attempt at fixing some of the problems on this page. I have started with the first subsection (Land inheritance). After trying and failing to make the excessively long list of linked peoples/tribes more readable, I decided to just removed most of them. It is unnecessary to go into that much detail and it really was just unreadable, especially with the massive run on sentences. I will attempt to work through the rest of the article in a similar fashion. Sarahj2107 (talk) 14:37, 13 May 2014 (UTC)
I will modify the article myself. I wrote all the article, so I think at least have the right to modify it if some people don't like it. Please stop making edits, I will make them myself. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ansegam (talk • contribs)
Is there any coherent distinction by which the topic of this article is delimited from that of Systems of inheritance among various peoples? As far as I can see, the one is merely a more wordy version of the other. Of course, merging would produce yet more problems of sheer size, but then, there does seem to be consensus that this material needs to be pared down a lot anyway, right? Fut.Perf. ☼ 11:49, 5 June 2014 (UTC)
Currently the article is all over the place in terms of organisation and I suspect there is some duplication, with systems of individual counties being discussed in multiple places. The current section headings are too essay like and will not accurately describe the section contents when I have finished cleaning out the irrelevant content. I was thinking of reorganise the article by location, so each section would describe the inheritance systems of a particular country or region. If anyone objects or has a better idea, let me know. Sarahj2107 (talk) 14:27, 9 June 2014 (UTC)
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