Talk:Beehive (New Zealand)

Proposal to rename

Please see Talk:The Beehive for my proposal to rename this page and a couple of related ones. -- FP 06:53, Mar 6, 2005 (UTC)

flags

mmm I wonder why the flags in the beehive photos are at half-mast? Brian | (Talk) 07:27, 25 June 2006 (UTC)

The photograph was taken shortly after the death of Pope John Paul II -- FirstPrinciples 03:44, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

Image problem

The lower picture on the left is covering some text, I'll try to fix it but I'm not a WikiMaster. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.173.72.139 (talk) 07:28, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

Okay, fixed. That was easier than I thought. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.173.72.139 (talk) 07:44, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

Disambiguation

Is there any particular reason for The Beehive to redirect here instead of (say) to Beehive Cluster or Beehive (hairstyle), or perhaps Beehive (disambiguation)?208.98.149.212 (talk) 21:01, 12 January 2015 (UTC)

Requested move 30 September 2020

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: Not moved. (closed by non-admin page mover) -- Calidum 19:26, 7 October 2020 (UTC)

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Beehive (New Zealand) → The Beehive (New Zealand) – I have never heard The Beehive referred to as Beehive. Even the article opens with The Beehive. Parliament's website calls it The Beehive and it's most commonly referred to as The Beehive from what I've seen scrolling through the sources on this page. 101.98.135.42 (talk) 09:25, 30 September 2020 (UTC)

https://www.parliament.nz/en/visit-and-learn/history-and-buildings/buildings-and-grounds/

• Comment. I'm assuming they have actual beehives in New Zealand, so the disambiguator should actually be something like "New Zealand Parliament". -- Necrothesp (talk) 11:08, 30 September 2020 (UTC)

I can confirm this is true. 101.98.135.42 (talk) 22:42, 30 September 2020 (UTC)

• Support without amendment - anyone even remotely familiar with New Zealand government and politics would understand that "The Beehive" relates to the New Zealand government precinct, not actual beehives. ItsPugle (please ping on reply) 11:41, 30 September 2020 (UTC)
• Oppose per WP:THE, starting an article title with the definite article is generally discouraged. This is no different than "The White House". Rreagan007 (talk) 16:42, 30 September 2020 (UTC)

Ah but in WP:THE they say "If a word with a definite article has a different meaning with respect to the same word without the article, the word with article can be used as the name of a Wikipedia article about that meaning, and the word without article can be used as the name of a separate Wikipedia article." Beehive New Zealand has different meaning to The Beehive New Zealand. I consider this move to be in line with WP:THE. Also there is a sort of popuar honey brand in New Zealand called Beehive 101.98.135.42 (talk) 22:44, 30 September 2020 (UTC)

I think you're misinterpreting that. What that means is that The Beehive can theoretically be a different article than Beehive. But nobody has proposed moving this article to "The Beehive". But since "The Beehive" already redirects here, perhaps the disambiguator could be dropped. But as long as the disambiguator is in the title, the article should not have the definite article in it. Rreagan007 (talk) 00:14, 1 October 2020 (UTC)

• Rename to Beehive (New Zealand Parliament). Otherwise the article would seem to be about a particular type of beehive found in New Zealand. Most of us are not "even remotely familiar with New Zealand government and politics"! But even if we were this would be the case. WP:THE applies. -- Necrothesp (talk) 17:03, 30 September 2020 (UTC)

@Necrothesp: "If a word with a definite article has a different meaning with respect to the same word without the article, the word with article can be used as the name of a Wikipedia article about that meaning, and the word without article can be used as the name of a separate Wikipedia article." 101.98.135.42 (talk) 00:42, 1 October 2020 (UTC)

• Oppose per WP:THE and there is nothing wrong with the current dab. No reason to change anything. Schwede66 23:04, 30 September 2020 (UTC)

@Schwede66: "If a word with a definite article has a different meaning with respect to the same word without the article, the word with article can be used as the name of a Wikipedia article about that meaning, and the word without article can be used as the name of a separate Wikipedia article." 101.98.135.42 (talk) 00:42, 1 October 2020 (UTC)

Yes, thanks. Same what you said above. Schwede66 08:40, 1 October 2020 (UTC)

• Oppose because the isn't commonly used in article titles, and besides, I could cite many examples of "Beehive" being used without the definite article, usually as an adjective. E.g. "videos Ardern from her Beehive office"[1] --Hazhk (talk) 10:42, 3 October 2020 (UTC)
• Oppose because if the definite article was added it would not need a disambiguator in parentheses – in other words, if the definite article was added, The Beehive would be fine, and such a renaming would be simply a reversal of the current redirect. My opposition is not because of WP:THE. While definite and indefinite articles are most commonly omitted, the sentence from WP:THE quoted above does allow (but not require) the use of the definite article. The counterpoint to the "White House" example is (geographically) just 3 km away across the Potomac at "The Pentagon". So I say reject this proposal, but if someone wants to make a fresh proposal to rename to "The Beehive", go ahead and we can debate the merits of that. Nurg (talk) 09:33, 5 October 2020 (UTC)

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.