Talk:Caddie (historical occupation)

Requested move 9 March 2021

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: Consensus to move article to Caddie (historical occupation)(non-admin closure) Fredlesaltique (talk) 08:50, 21 March 2021 (UTC)

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Caddie (18th-century Edinburgh) → Caddie (1700s) – Per WP:CONCISE, changing this strange parenthetical ["(18thC Edinburgh)"] to a date for disambiguation. 162.208.168.92 (talk) 15:11, 9 March 2021 (UTC)

• Comment – Just moved it from that really-strange parenthetical "Caddie (18thC Edinburgh)" to "Caddie (18th-century Edinburgh)". No matter the result of the discussion, the previous parenthetical was honestly a mess. Discussion can continue as normal, though. Paintspot Infez (talk) 18:17, 9 March 2021 (UTC)

Also, I think "Caddie (18th century)" might be better than "Caddie (1700s)", as "1700s" is ambiguous could either refer to the century or the decade. Paintspot Infez (talk) 18:17, 9 March 2021 (UTC)

No objection to that. 162.208.168.92 (talk) 19:17, 9 March 2021 (UTC)

• Oppose the proposed form — caddies were not "1700s" — but would support addition of "occupation": Caddie (18th-century Edinburgh) → Caddie (1700s occupation) and would also support, consensus permitting, other forms, such as Caddie (1700s Edinburgh occupation), Caddie (1700s Scottish occupation) or even, returning to the current form, Caddie (18th-century Edinburgh occupation). —Roman Spinner (talk • contribs) 23:19, 9 March 2021 (UTC)
• Hold on IP are you certain that Caddie had no other meaning anywhere in 1700s? In ictu oculi (talk) 13:49, 10 March 2021 (UTC)

Nothing on Wikipedia that I can see. Caddie in the modern (golf) sense originated in the mid-1800s, according to this. 162.208.168.92 (talk) 15:45, 10 March 2021 (UTC)

• Support Caddie (18th-century Edinburgh occupation). The disambiguator needs to actually mean something to the reader. I would look at the proposed disambiguator and think it referred to 18th-century tea tins! -- Necrothesp (talk) 16:53, 15 March 2021 (UTC)
• Comment The guidelines on qualifiers recommend that "when a more detailed title is necessary to distinguish an article topic from another, use only as much additional detail as necessary". What about something like Caddie (historical occupation)? Fredlesaltique (talk) 02:13, 18 March 2021 (UTC)

  This is probably the best one. 162.208.168.92 (talk) 03:10, 18 March 2021 (UTC)

I would likewise support Caddie (historical occupation). —Roman Spinner (talk • contribs) 05:07, 20 March 2021 (UTC)

Fine by me too. -- Necrothesp (talk) 13:32, 20 March 2021 (UTC)

Glad I popped in; I knew nothing of caddies before. I'll go ahead and close the discussion and move the article, since it looks like we've reached consensus. Cheers, Fredlesaltique (talk) 08:44, 21 March 2021 (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.