Talk:Debits and Credits

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[edit] Merge

The two discussions on the merge have been moved to: Talk:Debits and Credits/Debit and Talk:Debits and Credits/Credit (accounting).

While some people voted no, a majority voted to merge, so I did. Ariel. 08:53, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Page move

I disagree with moving the page from 'Debits and Credits' to 'Debit and credit', because 'Debits and Credits' is a title. Your example 'enclave and exclave' are simply two english words, but 'Debits and Credits' is the name of the double entry system. That's also why I made Credits uppercase.

If you google a bit you will find more hits for 'Debit and credit', but if you look very few of them are talking about the double entry system, however with 'Debits and Credits' nearly all the hits are talking about the system.

I will not move the page back, because I'd like to hear from people with more experience in the field - for example in a textbook, what is the name of the chapter? Ariel. 19:10, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

Why group Debit & Credit together unless you are writing for a bookkeeping or Accounting Journal. Credit has many meanings, Credits also has many meanings. This is an not a financial encyclopedia. I feel that the accounting world is influencing this article. Debit and Credit are closely linked , but would you search for an article on Debits and Credits or Debit and Credit. I consider myself knowledgeable about this area and Debit and Credit does not appear right to me. BUT an article on bookkeeping/accounting debits and credits to me is acceptable but it must be made clear that it is an article about two bookkeeping terms which if written as two seperate articles would not be as clear to the reader. I would agree that "Debits and Credits" would be a more appropriate title. The title Debit and Credit would indicate to me that the writer is not familiar with the area of bookkeeping/accounting. An Article page for each 1.Debit (redirect debits) 2.Credit (redirect credits) and 3. Debits and Credits is my suggestion --NilssonDenver 23:38, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

The reason we didn't have separate article about debit and credit is we had nothing to say. Everything said about credit was also true (in reverse) about debit. And you are correct - this article is specifically about bookkeeping. So far no one has come up with anything to say about debit or credit that doesn't have to do with bookkeeping. Thanks for agreeing with me on the page name, I will wait a little longer and give User:NeonMerlin a chance to reply before moving it back. Ariel. 01:21, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

I still support Debits and Credits NOT Debit & Credit NilssonDenver 22:09, 12 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Clean-up

This page needs a bit of a clean up. Not being an experienced editor, I do not know how to do this. Examples of problems include internal links in External Links section and the page not being properly seperated into sections.--203.45.122.191 10:43, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

Have you got a user ID. If so will you login using it before doing any changes. I will help with any cleanup you want to. Also check out [[1]] for help on editing. NilssonDenver 11:13, 29 November 2006 (UTC)