The result was Merge, disambig. Create a disambig to Agrarian Society, plus "Agricultural Societies" like 4h, merge duplicate content ( non-admin closure) ( talk→ Bwilkins / BMW ←track) 11:25, 22 February 2009 (UTC) reply
Contested prod. "A society that uses plows and drafts animals in growing food". So, that would be every society in the world then? Will never be anything other than a pointless fork of Agriculture; oh, and the "References" are to Britannica and Encarta, respectively. I don't even think it's worth preserving as a redirect (but am happy to be overruled if anyone thinks it's necessary).. – iridescent 23:53, 17 February 2009 (UTC) reply
I think that the creator is unsuccessfully groping for the concept that is more usually called an agrarian society. An agricultural, rather than agrarian society is usually a farmers' or growers' association of some kind, as are the ones linked-to in the "See also" section of this very article — indeed, as also is the Agricultural Society in Poland discussed in the Britannica article that this article's creator incorrectly thinks supports the article.
We don't need deletion order to solve this. Just turn it into a disambiguation. Clearly the creator of this article isn't going to be the last person to look up agrarian society by this name, and be so convinced of its correctness that xe starts an article. ☺ And equally clearly, the Royal Agricultural Society, the Royal Agricultural Society of New South Wales, the Royal Agricultural Society of Tasmania, and so forth are all agricultural societies. Uncle G ( talk) 00:43, 18 February 2009 (UTC) reply
The result was Merge, disambig. Create a disambig to Agrarian Society, plus "Agricultural Societies" like 4h, merge duplicate content ( non-admin closure) ( talk→ Bwilkins / BMW ←track) 11:25, 22 February 2009 (UTC) reply
Contested prod. "A society that uses plows and drafts animals in growing food". So, that would be every society in the world then? Will never be anything other than a pointless fork of Agriculture; oh, and the "References" are to Britannica and Encarta, respectively. I don't even think it's worth preserving as a redirect (but am happy to be overruled if anyone thinks it's necessary).. – iridescent 23:53, 17 February 2009 (UTC) reply
I think that the creator is unsuccessfully groping for the concept that is more usually called an agrarian society. An agricultural, rather than agrarian society is usually a farmers' or growers' association of some kind, as are the ones linked-to in the "See also" section of this very article — indeed, as also is the Agricultural Society in Poland discussed in the Britannica article that this article's creator incorrectly thinks supports the article.
We don't need deletion order to solve this. Just turn it into a disambiguation. Clearly the creator of this article isn't going to be the last person to look up agrarian society by this name, and be so convinced of its correctness that xe starts an article. ☺ And equally clearly, the Royal Agricultural Society, the Royal Agricultural Society of New South Wales, the Royal Agricultural Society of Tasmania, and so forth are all agricultural societies. Uncle G ( talk) 00:43, 18 February 2009 (UTC) reply