Talk:Autochton
Explanation of my Redirect
[edit]After research, I have concluded that this article owes its existence to a typo or misspelling. The disambiguation page to which I'm pointing contains a better-worded and equally complete definition of the geological meaning, so nothing is lost there. As to the assertion, "autochon is an early 20th century spelling, seen in Bronislaw Malinowski's Argonauts of the Western Pacific":
- A solecistic spelling does not merit an article.
- Presumably Malinowski was using the anthropological, not the geological term, so the information is irrelevant to what purports to be the article on the geological term.
- This information has been added here very carelessly, so that Malinowski's idiosyncratic spelling for a different meaning is probably not even conveyed here—surely it is not "autochon," and in the extremely unlikely case that it were so, the information would belong at autochon (or more properly, would justify making autochon a redirect—but this is not justified).
- This page was created by a user who also perpetrated allochton, which has been correctly redirected to allochthon since January 2006.
- The Oxford English Dictionary records no variant spellings of "autochthon" or "autochthonous" in all of their usage, from 1646 to the present, in all senses, including geological.
So redirecting is a no-brainer, and there's nothing of value here that needs to be merged elsewhere. Wareh 20:42, 18 October 2006 (UTC)