Talk:Governor's House

what to include

Discussion elsewhere, maybe should be focussed here, about which items to include. I asked elsewhere, ask here again, can the inclusion criteria not be narrowed immediately here, while other stuff is getting clarified (at the list of Governors' residences list-article). There is no rush, AFAIK. --doncram (talk) 01:13, 12 December 2010 (UTC)

resolution about common usage, and combo page covering "Governor's House" and "Governor's Residence"

There has been some back-and-forth editing about whether some U.S. state governor's houses are commonly referred to as "Governor's House", despite Wikipedia's page for them calling them "STATE Governor's Residence" or "STATE Government House" or the like. Specifically another editor disagreed whether phrase some commonly called "Governor's House" can be used to describe the relevance of List of governors' mansions in the United States in the "See also" list. That disagreement is moot if we can agree instead upon revised descriptor some commonly called "Governor's House" or "Governor's Residence". I hope it is not controversial for us to agree that in common usage "STATE" sometimes gets dropped from official term "STATE whatever-it-is-called". And I further believe that people freely switch among "Governor's Residence" and "Governor's House" and "Governor's Mansion". For an example of both dropping and switching, Wikipedia's article is Colorado Governor's Mansion, but Colorado's governor's house is referred to as simply "Governor's Residence" here and here and here.

I revised the page to be a combo page covering both "House" and "Residence". Readers would not be well served by having two similar pages, when they just want to look up whatever-it-is-called of some state or country. (There was not previously a "Governor's Residence" dab page but there could have been. From 2014 until today, the topic Governor's Residence was a redirect to Belmond Governor's Residence; I just redirected it to this "Governor's House" page instead.) There are several U.S. governor's houses that are referred to as the "Governor's Residence", or "STATE Executive Residence" or the like, including:

• Connecticut Governor's Residence
• Wikipedia calls it Indiana Governor's Residence, but Indiana's is also referred to as simply "Governor's Residence", e.g. here
• "Pennsylvania Governor's Residence", at here
• "Wisconsin Executive Residence", at [1]

I believe I could add more. Is this okay I hope? --doncram 23:55, 6 September 2016 (UTC)

No, Governor's Residence is like Governor's Mansion and Governor's Palace. It belongs in the "See Also" section of this dab page. You can create a Governor's Residence (disambiguation) page if you like (although I personally think it's unnecessary) and add Connecticut, Indiana, etc, there, but it doesn't belong here. The redirect you created at Governor's Residence was a double redirect that went nowhere; I reverted that, but make it a dab page if you want (and, if you do, please don't forget about its talk page). Station1 (talk) 02:37, 7 September 2016 (UTC)