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The result was Incubate. Incubating. Possibility of rescue. Black Kite (t) (c) 19:37, 22 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Parting gift[edit]

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Unsourced stub that contains a few trivial anecdotes. Sottolacqua (talk) 16:00, 15 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Keep, expand and reference --Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) (talk) 16:34, 15 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Nothing more than a dictionary definition, "a gift given at parting." There is no reason to think that examples given of ancient Greek, modern Japanese, and American game show use are in any way related. Borock (talk) 16:43, 15 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Literature-related deletion discussions. -- Jclemens-public (talk) 19:15, 15 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
~~Delete~~Keep dictionary definition at best. Try another wiki, perhaps Wikitionary.--Paul McDonald (talk) 20:46, 15 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Keep/merge The Roman poet Martial wrote a book about gifts and works such as this may be used to reference the section about Ancient Greece, for example. The related articles gift and parting tradition need a lot of work too and so it might be sensible to take all these together. Colonel Warden (talk) 18:03, 16 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- Change position Hard to argue with that logic (mostly because I don't even understand it) but if there are experienced editors enthusiastic about the article and willing to take it on, then I say "have at it!" Worst case scenario is that it will come to no harm.--Paul McDonald (talk) 19:35, 16 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Comment. Martial's Xenia deals with gift-giving during the Roman Saturnalia and is not a treatise but a series of couplets that describe (or suggest) particular gifts; it's rather difficult to see how it could be used to "reference the section about Ancient Greece". Once again Colonel Warden has performed a Google search and lit on a result of quite dubious relevance. Deor (talk) 11:29, 19 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Delete: article offers no sourced information on why a parting gift is notably distinguished from any other form of gift-giving (welcoming, Christmas, birthday, etc), nor does ((find)) suggest any evidence of this. Lacking secondary sources that actually discuss the significance of this form of gift-giving (and there's no indication that Martial does, even if he weren't essentially a primary source in this context), I see no notability. Hrafn^Talk_Stalk^(P) 12:47, 20 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Keep: I fully believe that the article, if presented with valid contributions, could expand beyond it's current form. I also believe if done in the right contexts it could be made different from any other gift-related article.--ForgottenHistory (talk) 12:50, 20 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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