Talk:Metayage

NPOV

This may just need slight recasting into a more encyclopedic form. I removed the sentence that read, "Indeed, to every tourist who has passed through the plains of Lombardy with their eyes open, the knowledge that métayage has for ages been there the prevailing form of tenure ought to suffice for the triumphant vindication of métayage in the abstract." 'Triumphant vindication' was just too hard to swallow. But sentences like "Métayage, in order to be in any measure worthy of commendation, must be a genuine partnership ..." need to be recast. Bejnar 14:23, 15 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Out-of-date

Even when the original of this article was written, presumably in 1894, the practice of métayage had passed out of use in most of France and Italy. It needs a major rewrite. Bejnar 14:58, 15 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]