Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Peace-bonding (2nd nomination)
although I'm sad to see that this never got the much-needed revision after the last AFD.  In addition to the source in the article and the other mentioned by the nominator, there is also a passage by Pournelle that I mentioned in the first AFD.  I do not have access to that source at this time, and the text is not available online, but he discusses the topic in the context of conventioneering history.  I remain convinced that the 1980s fantasy/convention fanzines have a wider discussion of this history; there was at one point considerable debate over how to accommodate armed costumes without creating a public safety hazard, and such sources are the likeliest place to find documentation of it.  However, they were not in general well preserved or well-indexed, and I have not had success in that regard.  A more typically historical reference is the discussion of ''friðbond'' (with several spelling variants) in several Icelandic sagas, as discussed in http://books.google.com/books?id=nY0T9n4zAQAC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false this book (pp.194-185) and several other sources.  There is some suggestion online that a similar practice may have been instituted in Spain during the duello period, but I'm still looking for reliable documentation there.  Regardless, although there do not appear to be any sources dedicated to the topic in the main, that's not a requirement under |the notability guideline
— User:Serpent, 16:36, 11 May 2011 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:GNG (Wikipedia:Notability)