Talk:Porter (carrier)

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Introduction is too long. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.21.196.68 (talk) 17:00, 20 July 2016 (UTC)

What is the purpose of this article? People still carry things everywhere in the world, not just Sumer and the third world. Porters are available at any airport or good hotel. And are we supposed toi beleive women were enslaved only to carry things in Sumer? --rmhermenissue

Like any occupation, this one has a history that is worth examining more closely. At the moment it is barely a stub, so your reaction is understandable, but one issue this article should some day explore is that being a porter is not merely a matter of carrying a burden. I intend to add a section dealing with the fascinating history of Pre-Meiji porters in Japan. But all in good time... Pinkville 00:58, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

Yes, such is the life of a porter, carrying things from place to place. Why should you believe women were only enslaved to be porters? I reccomend you read Sumer, enslavement as a porter was only one of many tasks that Sumerian women were occupied with.

This page will one day contain information on porters throughout the world and all of history! If you'd like something to do you should expand the article in relation to porters & the Ho Chi Minh trail! Lir 15:01 Oct 28, 2002 (UTC)

I think you should look more nearby then Pre-Meiji. I think there is a lot of history for porters in the academic world. [User: Jpclifford] 00:42 7 september 2012 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jpclifford (talk • contribs) 22:49, 6 September 2012 (UTC)

For just one example of the complexity of this subject, in one specific place, read Walter M. Stern's book The Porters of London (1960), which tells the story of London porters (such as Tacklehouse porters, Street or Ticket porters, and Fellowship or Billingsgate porters etc) from the medieval period to the 19th century. I'm tempted to put some information from the book into this article, but it would then need to be fleshed out with similar sections on the historic role of porters in transporting goods in other western cities! John O'London (talk) 15:46, 20 May 2013 (UTC)

Requested move 3 March 2022

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: Not moved. (non-admin closure) Natg 19 (talk) 23:41, 10 March 2022 (UTC)

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• Porter (carrier) → Porter
• Porter → Porter (disambiguation)

– Primary topic by longterm significance as being the origin of the other usages of "porter", as well as a WP:BROADCONCEPT article. While the beer brand gets more pageviews than the job, the brand's name was directly based on the job, so longterm significance still applies. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 02:47, 3 March 2022 (UTC)

• Oppose: Too many other topics, and the beer gets more page views. It's a type of beer, not a brand of beer, and although it may have originally gotten its name from the job, that association has dissipated over time. —⁠ ⁠BarrelProof (talk) 11:09, 3 March 2022 (UTC)
• Oppose per pageviews. There are too many significant competing topics which are known by this name. This page gets only a small fraction of the total views. The fact that some of these are in some sense named after this topic does not make it primary, per WP:DPT. Colin M (talk) 22:24, 3 March 2022 (UTC)
• Weak oppose per Colin M, while I do attach weight to being original it doesn't seem primary as some of the meanings are very distinct and not all may derive from this anyway. Crouch, Swale (talk) 11:00, 4 March 2022 (UTC)
• Oppose per others. I can't see the profession or the beer style clearly being the primary topic here. Daniel Case (talk) 04:20, 8 March 2022 (UTC)
• Oppose. Porter (college) and Porter (railroad) are just as notable. -- Necrothesp (talk) 14:13, 9 March 2022 (UTC)

The discussion above 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.