Talk:Threshold (architecture)

Poland and Russia

I don't think this concept is Poland/Russia specific; consider the idea that vampires/evil spirits cannot come through the threshold unless invited, and its variants, often found in urban fantasy/horror and similar stories. --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk to me} 17:42, 15 May 2012 (UTC)

• It was just an example. Please expand if you want. I'm sure most countries have something related to thresholds in their mythology/culture.Malick78 (talk) 19:06, 15 May 2012 (UTC)

Etymology?

Is the etymology really unknown? I had always figured it was from the lip ("hold") at the edge of a threshing floor. Is it not? —Ben FrantzDale (talk) 13:24, 24 August 2014 (UTC)

Requested move 15 June 2016

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The result of the move request was: not moved. May be worth revisiting one day if someone writes a WP:CONCEPTDAB. Jenks24 (talk) 16:42, 22 June 2016 (UTC)

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• Threshold (door) → Threshold
• Threshold → Threshold (disambiguation)

– This topic is the WP:PRIMARYTOPIC for "threshold" because it has the highest long-term significance. The names of all other topics named "Threshold" are derived from this topic. SSTflyer 10:21, 15 June 2016 (UTC)

• Oppose: looking at the threshold page it is clear that there are plenty of definitions of threshold that have absolutely nothing to do with the door. The proposed move also clearly fails to meet the WP:PRIMARYTOPIC criteria that it be the topic searched for more than all other potential searches combined. Ebonelm (talk) 13:05, 15 June 2016 (UTC)
• Oppose. "the point or level at which something begins or changes" is probably what most think of when "threshold" comes up, not a door. Nohomersryan (talk) 13:34, 15 June 2016 (UTC)
• Oppose. If anything, the primary topic for "threshold" is its use as a word that is synonymous with "limit". However, since Wikipedia is not a dictionary, the current situation is preferable. Steel1943 (talk) 04:18, 22 June 2016 (UTC)

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Removed origin info

I removed the following sentence from the article as it is badly written and unsourced. Feel free to add this info back if it can be improved:

Threshold a board placed across an entrance to hold in the thresh.Thresh was a common floor covering.fact

194.15.124.31 (talk) 14:26, 12 April 2017 (UTC)

origin 'hold'

in german the word 'wood' is written as 'holtz'. if the tresh area is surrounded by bars of wood the grain partly will bounce on this low barrier and will stay inside the "barred" part. this greek floor has an leveled edge aswell https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorsen#/media/Bestand:Threshing_place,_Santorini,_Greece.jpg — Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.149.83.125 (talk) 02:11, 19 July 2022 (UTC)