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most of the articles that link here relate to scapegoat in the psychological sense and therefore relate more to scapegoating.: Special:WhatLinksHere/Scapegoat -- Penbat ( talk) 13:34, 28 January 2012 (UTC)
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I propose to merge Azazel into Scapegoat. Especially the way the article is written, Azazel and Scapegoat are one in the same, so I can see no reason that they are not merged.
Really I think the article should be rewritten to define scapegoat more broadly to include those currently referred to as "practices with some similarities to the scapegoat ritual" & "superficially similar to the biblical scapegoat". (If it is rewritten, there may be room to go either way on the merging.)
I propose changing the title to something like "Scapegoat ritual" (or adding a parenthetical) and redirecting plain scapegoat to the disambiguation page (or even to the scapegoating page) for the following combination of reasons:
On the other hand, Britannica seems to use the "scapegoat" entry in the religious sense (including humans) (they have no dedicated article to scapegoating). However, I found an Encyclopaedia of the Ancient World published by Brill that does use the entry "scapegoat ritual".
This discussion regarding the original split (from the Scapegoating page) may be relevant (I'm not sure I fully followed all of it tho). I also noticed that in the original split, the article started with "In modern usage a scapegoat is an individual, group, or country singled out for unmerited negative treatment or blame..." until it was removed here. Yaakovaryeh ( talk) 08:06, 1 January 2021 (UTC)
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most of the articles that link here relate to scapegoat in the psychological sense and therefore relate more to scapegoating.: Special:WhatLinksHere/Scapegoat -- Penbat ( talk) 13:34, 28 January 2012 (UTC)
The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
I propose to merge Azazel into Scapegoat. Especially the way the article is written, Azazel and Scapegoat are one in the same, so I can see no reason that they are not merged.
Really I think the article should be rewritten to define scapegoat more broadly to include those currently referred to as "practices with some similarities to the scapegoat ritual" & "superficially similar to the biblical scapegoat". (If it is rewritten, there may be room to go either way on the merging.)
I propose changing the title to something like "Scapegoat ritual" (or adding a parenthetical) and redirecting plain scapegoat to the disambiguation page (or even to the scapegoating page) for the following combination of reasons:
On the other hand, Britannica seems to use the "scapegoat" entry in the religious sense (including humans) (they have no dedicated article to scapegoating). However, I found an Encyclopaedia of the Ancient World published by Brill that does use the entry "scapegoat ritual".
This discussion regarding the original split (from the Scapegoating page) may be relevant (I'm not sure I fully followed all of it tho). I also noticed that in the original split, the article started with "In modern usage a scapegoat is an individual, group, or country singled out for unmerited negative treatment or blame..." until it was removed here. Yaakovaryeh ( talk) 08:06, 1 January 2021 (UTC)