Talk:Taboo on the dead

blockquotes tags?
Hi, Sofeil. Regarding this edit, are these whole chunks of text quotes? I only see quotation marks around parts that I didn't change. "If the whole sections are quotes, we should probably be using blockquote tags or something similar to make that obvious." As for the names of tribes, I'm certain I've fixed them properly. Unless those are complete quotes as well, we should probably use the names I provided, most of which are the tribes' names for themselves. &mdash; coe l acan t a lk  &mdash; 11:36, 30 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Well those are certainly not my words, but I don't know if they should be called quotes. Many of come from Freud (1950), who analyzing Frazer (1911). But Frazer himself got these from many smaller sources. I chose not to put them in quotation marks because they look better this way. If you take WP:OR literally pretty much everything has to be put in quotes. But I'm open to suggestions. We can either put everything in quotes, or we can forget about the quotes but change things only when needed (and after discussion). Your call. Sofeil 12:39, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

Wouldn't tribes exist in a permanent state of taboo?
Unless tribes were very small, one would expect several deaths in the tribe to occur more frequently than their respective mourning periods had a chance to expire, such that the tribe as a whole would be going through a neverending series of overlapping death-related taboos. If not anything else, this should have wreaked havoc on their speech. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.168.133.49 (talk) 20:44, 8 February 2015 (UTC)

Removal of sections or material sourced to Frazer
This article had been tagged almost three years ago by for inclusion of material sourced to Frazer's The Golden Bough. As our own articles on Frazer's work demonstrate, his collection of stories from cultures he considered "primitive" are unreliable and sensationalist. They cannot be considered accurate description of beliefs and I have therefore removed all the Frazer-sourced material. Eggishorn (talk) (contrib) 16:28, 30 April 2020 (UTC)