Talk:Market town

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I added the above notice because I just created Begho, an article on an ancient trading town of present-day Ghana. At present, this article focuses exclusively on Western Europe. — mark ✎ 13:28, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Agree this article ir regional-centric.

One of the challenges in the Wikipedia is to be properly international without submerging valid regional and local concepts. As an example of what can/does happen, take a look at the word seter which is a simple mountain farm in Scandinavia. If you spend some time, you figure out what the transhumance article might have to do with seter, but you have to read and sort for a while in a rather poorly written mismash of material. And to make it worse, at one point that transhumance article had some structure and logic.

So my point is, perhaps, that we Wikipedians should figure out a way to talk about market towns in various regions without submerging legitimate local topics.

Cheers - Williamborg 00:38, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

Someone who is interested and knowlegable - the "market" link points to a disambiguation page. This is not very helpful! It should point to a specific article (perhaps it used to but that's not much help now). Garrie 21:34, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

Is this article regional-centric? Maybe it has to be. I don't know much about the topic. But it seems to me that "market town" is essentially a law term. It does not simply mean that a market is taking place at that location. Rather, the king or some other eligible person has conferred the right to have a market. The first section of the article is rather explicit about this. The question is: Do other regions have such a legal tradition as well? If yes, the article should include that information. In contrast, the above-mentioned african town of Begho seems to be a place where a lot of trading is going on, but the respective article does not mention anything that is equivalent to the medieval law term "market town".--193.196.193.21 14:28, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

In the absence of further information I've stated that this is a specifically European legal status. Dancarney 09:05, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Distance between markets

I recall hearing on several occasions that in England, there is a law which guarantees the minimum distance between two markets, as the distance a tradesperson can walk with their wares, in order to have time to sell them at market, and walk home again, all in a single day. I'm loathed to add it to the article, though it's relevant, unless someone can assist in providing some kind of citation for the fact. I remember it having some kind of relevance when it comes to the legacy of the spacing of markets in now-urban London. Graldensblud 22:55, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

I do recall of the selling and trading a love renaissance isnt this awsome you guys. I mean just knowing from the past

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article has at least a few phrases that could easily be interpreted in two or more obverse &/or contradictory manners. Such phrases might be tightened, in order to reduce potential confusion.

Hopiakuta 04:28, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Poor English

It would be nice if someone who actually can write English sentences could clean up the article. The first sentences alone are a catastrophe of stylistic and grammatical confusion. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.173.227.138 (talk • contribs)

It would be nice if people signed their comments too. Better still, it would be nice if they signed their comments and carried out the edits they're asking other people to do. - Dudesleeper · Talk 22:07, 4 September 2007 (UTC)