Talk:A few acres of snow

message: I really enjoy a juicy bit of historical disambiguation, well told! This brief entry has perfect form. Wetman 20:01, 8 Mar 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: I think people here are confusing what Voltaire thought with what the characters in his novel thought. What the characters say or think doesn't necesarily reflect what the author thinks. If Voltaire had written a novel about the colonies, and one of the characters said that "killing a negro is a light matter not even worth thinking twice over after it's done", would we conclude that Voltaire was racist?!! Hardouin 00:16, 17 Apr 2005 (UTC)

text: I agree that this is not as common a phrase in Canada as the first paragraph makes it seem, and it's not just people from the west who don't use it.  I grew up in southern Ontario, have followed Canadian politics fairly closely since the early seventies, and even lived in Quebec for a short time and speak a little french, and I'm not sure I ever heard the phrase before today.--Tedd 22:04, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

text: No it does not need a disambiguation unless there exists another Wikipedia page named after the organization.  There are several options you can use, depending if you want to write about the organization itself, or if you only want to mention its name as an additional example of a use of Voltaire's phrase. In the latter case, you can add the additional example to the list with the other examples in the appropriate section of the article. However, if you want to write something about the organization, then you would not be writing about the topic of this page but about a different topic and therefore this page would not be the appropriate place.  In this case, if you come to the conclusion that the organization meets the Wikipedia notoriety criteria for deserving its own article, you can create such an article. (And then you would need to also create a disambiguation because Wikipedia would now have two articles about two different topics but with similar names.)  If you come to the conclusion that the organization does not pass the Wikipedia notoriety test for having its own article, you can still write about it by adding your text to a more general article about that topic, such as an article about North-American environmental history, or an article about environmental history organizations, etc.  You can, of course, do both, i.e. write something about the organization itself in the other article and include a mention of its name here in the list of examples. Asclepias 23:54, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
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message: I jus added a new entry to the Trivia section of this article:  "Although generally translated as "Acres", the term "Arpent" literally refers to an old French unit of land measurement, approximately 85% of the size of an acre. See Arpent."  I don't know how important this delineation is to the article, but perhaps it should be included in the general article rather than only appear in the trivia?  I leave the decision to those more well acquainted with wiki-editing.  Simonus 13:20, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
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