Talk:Merchant

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This article's kinda short. -__-;;

Should there not be a list of people called merchant or are there too many????--The penfool 08:32, 4 October 2006 (UTC) there should deffinately be more information on this topic because i need more info for school :(

What about including some etymology - the prefix of "mer" meaning "of the water" (e.g mermaid). This would introduce the concept of the "law of the water" under which all commerce flows. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.221.40.3 (talk) 09:48, 22 October 2007 (UTC)

The section about law in the UCC is wrong. UCC 2-205, the firm offer must originate from a merchant and contain his signature, but does not need to be BETWEEN two merchants. Poorly done. now can someone help me find the tilde key..., nm.198.151.130.135 (talk) 15:11, 27 July 2011 (UTC)


 * Well… that kind of makes sense. I also needed this for school, but it has not enough good information for me to use… I absolutely agree with you. 2001:569:50F9:7D00:B9BA:3DD6:FC3A:2E12 (talk) 02:43, 15 November 2022 (UTC)

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Hyphen in "well known" when not used attributively
According to WP:HYPHEN, "A hyphen is normally used when the adverb well precedes a participle used attributively (a well-meaning gesture;" In the text "The Phoenicians were well known amongst contemporaries", the participle "known" is not used attributively, so a hyphen is not needed. It would therefore be clutter. I am not the only editor who regularly removes useless hyphens. Removing punctuation that does not help the reader is not "making unnecessary changes". But one might argue that inserting useless hyphens is "making unnecessary changes". Chris the speller   yack  05:00, 29 August 2018 (UTC)

OK, I see! I had incorrectly thought that the passage was a reference to the "well-known Phoenicians" in which case the hyphenated usage would've been appropriate. Please feel free to change it back. BronHiggs (talk) 05:18, 29 August 2018 (UTC)

✅. Thanks, I have done so. Happy editing! Chris the speller  yack  13:39, 29 August 2018 (UTC)

Eurocentric/European focused article
This article has a dozen paintings to illustrates Dutch commerce and merchants, but barely even mentions the merits of Arab and other merchants. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 188.36.175.217 (talk) 11:22, 24 October 2018 (UTC)

"Local trader" redirects here, but...
...if you look at Trader (finance) you can see it's supposed to refer to a specific thing in futures markets (some traders are called "locals" or "local traders") and not just to your neighbourhood shopkeeper as described in this article here. 2A00:23C5:FE0C:2100:64EE:A829:1748:DCF (talk) 16:08, 15 December 2020 (UTC)

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