Talk:The Subjection of Women
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Two articles on the same essay. I believe Subjection of women is a more in-depth analysis of the essay than The Subjection of Women but I haven't read the essay in question, so I can't be totally sure. The Subjection of Women is the correct title of the essay, so the merged article should be under that. Kerowyn 01:31, 30 December 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Merge and rename request (Move)
While I agree a merge is more appropriate than a simple redirect, there is very little content in the The Subjection of Women' that isn't also in Subjection of women. To merge the articles but cutting and pasting the whole of the more in-depth Subjection of women into The Subjection of Women would destroy the edit history of both articles. I posted the article to Wikipedia:Requested moves for comment and advice. My intent is to create an article named The Subjection of Women that would contain the merged content of both articles while preserving the edit histories. A redirect would be left at Subjection of women. Please leave your comments below or in Talk:Subjection of women. Thatcher131 02:54, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
having read the essay for my philosophy class at Columbia university, I can say that the shorter version (with "the") does not contain anything of importance not included in the longer version (without "the"). it could easily be deleted, but that's just my 2 cents Dpb2104 06:39, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
I do not have an opinion about the edit-history-preservation issue, but I do agree with both of you about the content. In fact, I think that it is very important that the longer and more in-depth article ("Subjection of Women") essentially become the only article, under the correct name ("The Subjection of Women"). The short article ("The Subjection...") not only has very little content, but is also quite misleading in its summary of the four chapters. Anyone who has studied the book, as I have, or who has even read the more in-depth article ("Subjection...") would be very surprised to read the completely inaccurate summary of Chapter One in the short article ("The Subjection..."). JRtx 02:29, 17 March 2006 (UTC)