Talk:French formal garden

Requested move

The following discussion is an archived discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the move request was: Page moved to "French formal garden." -- Hadal (talk) 19:48, 2 July 2011 (UTC)

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Garden à la française → French garden – In English the common name is "French garden". Google Books give 16,000 hits vs 27 hits for "Garden à la française". The "French formal garden" has 1,730 hits. Simple Google search gives 1,150,000 results for French Garden vs 87,700 results for "Garden à la française". Elekhh (talk) 02:10, 25 June 2011 (UTC)

Oppose proposed name, but Support a renaming. I do not support the proposed renaming of the Garden à la française artIcle to French gardens — and suggest French Baroque gardens instead. The title French gardens is awfully vague and could include any garden created across French history located in France, let alone the pseudo-synonymous generic euro-Formal garden there or anywhere.—Look2See1 t a l k → 05:29, 25 June 2011 (UTC)

I agree is vague, but so are most names of architectural styles. What matters is common usage and reliable sources and that's what "French garden" usually refers to, hence the redirect from French garden. Also naturally, the term "French garden" appears twelve times in the article itself, including three times as section title. Nevertheless if it can be shown that current landscape architecture history does avoid the term "French garden" in favour of "Franch Baroque garden" than have no issue with that. We shall also consider consistency with Gardens of the French Renaissance. In any case seems that we agree that the current name is not tenable. --Elekhh (talk) 06:23, 25 June 2011 (UTC)

Support. Glad to see that the proposal is French garden; this is not a proper noun. Septentrionalis PMAnderson 00:36, 26 June 2011 (UTC)

• Oppose as proposed I prefer French formal garden per nom's other names listed. "French garden" can refer to any garden in France. 65.94.47.63 (talk) 03:54, 27 June 2011 (UTC)

• Support. French Baroque gardens or French formal garden might be needed at some point, for disambiguation, if other styles of French garden appear, but right now that doesn't seem necessary.
  — V = IR (Talk • Contribs) 04:30, 27 June 2011 (UTC)

Support. French Baroque Garden is best, I think. Who actually makes the change? SiefkinDR (talk) 06:23, 27 June 2011 (UTC)

An uninvolved administrator should be along sometime after 7 days have elapsed. He or she will review the arguments (hopefully), and make a decision at that point.
— V = IR (Talk • Contribs) 19:36, 27 June 2011 (UTC)

• Support per WP:UE and WP:COMMONNAME. Flamarande (talk) 20:58, 27 June 2011 (UTC)

• Support move over redirect to French formal garden. – ukexpat (talk) 18:42, 30 June 2011 (UTC)

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

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