Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Harlot


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was   close with no recommendations. No one here is suggesting this article be deleted. Redirects/merges are an editorial decision and should be discussed appropriately. I will suggest, however, that the participants bear in mind an article can be redirected without the loss of information, as anything in the article history can easily be merged into the target article at a future date. Shereth 17:51, 30 June 2008 (UTC)

Harlot

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All the page contains is an etymology which doesn't give the etymology, and a list of pop-culture references, to items none of which have been considered significant enough to get their own entry. Is this really enough for an article? Redirect to Prostitute -- Jheald (talk) 10:57, 25 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Redirect sounds fine to me too. FYI, you can be bold and just redirect it instead of taking it to AfD next time. --Explodicle (talk) 19:56, 25 June 2008 (UTC)
 * I know that; but to me it wasn't quite cut-and-dried. We will lose information if this page is turned into a redirect.  That's why I wanted a wider opinion from the community, as to whether anyone thinks there is anything here worth keeping.  Or anything that could be added to the page, that would justify its continued existence.  Jheald (talk) 08:17, 26 June 2008 (UTC)

The whole article has been corrupted to the point of irrelevancy. Not to long ago it noted that a harlot was originally a "sacred prostitute". All these references have been removed leaving a meaningless word. I say the previous article should be restored.Ewawer (talk) 22:24, 28 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Could you post a link to the page version in question? -- Explodicle (T/C) 22:44, 28 June 2008 (UTC)
 * I removed the claim because it is unfounded.  The word in English has never had this particular narrow specialisation of meaning.  In the King James Bible the word is used for any kind of female prostitute . See also Gesenius on the Hebrew words zanah and kedasha.  The root Hebrew meaning of the latter is "consecrated woman" -- ie temple prostitute, though in practise it came to be used more widely.  The root Hebrew meaning of the former has no such narrow associations.  But in English, in the KJV, the word Harlot is used to translate both, reflecting its use at the time (according to the OED) as a slightly less offensive alternative than the more direct "whore". -- Jheald (talk) 10:48, 30 June 2008 (UTC)


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