Talk:niggerless

RFV discussion: March 2017
Tagged by User:PapiDimmi, not listed. Already has three citations... Equinox ◑ 12:21, 16 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Maybe the entry should be improved in order to explain what the word actually means. ― PapíDimmi  ( talk | contribs )  12:50, 16 March 2017 (UTC)
 * RfV passed Cites verified, bibliographic information added. DCDuring TALK 12:58, 16 March 2017 (UTC)
 * The cites in the entry (and others) differ as to the meaningful consequences of being so characterized. In many cases it means lacking slaves to work plantations, but in others it means without black residents, without slavery being involved. In Poe it seems to be another dimension of deprivation. It is sometimes used to refer to poor whites in the pre-Civil War South.
 * IOW, the common thread is just as the definition reads. DCDuring TALK 13:07, 16 March 2017 (UTC)


 * User:PapiDimmi continues to edit-war on this entry, and has pointlessly split it into two senses of the same essential meaning. Note we do not split e.g. catless into "place: having no cats" and "person: owning no cats". Why do it for niggerless? Equinox ◑ 20:24, 22 March 2017 (UTC)
 * I agree. There is not enough attestation of the word to support multiple definitions. The differences in consequences are conclusions we might draw from the time of the citations. Before 1863 it could be inferred to mean "without property in the form of slaves", used of whites. After 1863 it seems to mean "without any black people in residence or membership." The citations themselves seem good enough to indicate the difference. DCDuring (talk) 20:59, 22 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Yeah, sorry about that. I was just tired of Papi posting on my user page. I can change it back if you'd like. — JohnC5 03:26, 23 March 2017 (UTC)
 * I did not not split the definitions; JohnC5 did. You can see his revision here and our discussion about it here.
 * Please don’t hastily make accusations like that. ― PapíDimmi  ( talk | contribs )  22:41, 22 March 2017 (UTC)