Talk:The Staple

Business Mid‑importance

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Hanseatic League (defunct)

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England Mid‑importance

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Middle Ages Mid‑importance

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Transport: Maritime

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Law

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Fragmented thinking

Why are there so many separate articles: The staple, Staple port, Staple (wool), Staple right, Merchants of the Staple? Dictionary thinking. An inclusive article should give concise summaries of each of these, set in a general context: encyclopedic thinking--Wetman (talk) 03:29, 9 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

For an ongoing merge discussion, see Talk:Merchants of the Staple#Fragmented thinking. —Srnec (talk) 21:28, 15 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]