Chursaner

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Etymology

What is the general policy on etymology of words? When is it appropriate and when is it not? Should we pretty much always add it if it's known?

Here is a simple example - I was fixing the article on "abstention," the term for when a voting party declines to vote, and quickly found out that the word came from the 14th century French word abstenir meaning "to withhold oneself." This would have been a short sentence and wouldn't have mattered either way but it made me wonder about what to do more generally. I'm not quite sure whether I like etymology as a wikipedia reader or whether I think it is a waste of space. Thoughts?

Do I post somewhere else for things like this?

File:Tony Podesta.jpg listed for deletion

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Nomination of Tony Podesta for deletion

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