Talk:Intendant

Merge Comment

Good idea to merge. Vivaverdi 22:30, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

With what? Lycurgus 14:59, 12 August 2007 (UTC)

Interwiki Semantic Clash

Entries in other IndoEuropean lang wikis concentrate on theatrical usage of the term. The interwiki links on some of them don't come back to this article because they ignore this, the most frequent, English connotation. Have rectified to the extent appropropriate by adding See Also §. This sort of thing is normal and acceptable in a cross-cultural encyclopedia .Lycurgus 14:59, 12 August 2007 (UTC)

Delete Argentina section

I suggest for the 'Argentina' section to be deleted, since although the word used in Argentine Spanish is "intendente", it is the exact same thing as a mayor, or 'alcalde', as they say in most of Latin America and Spain.

In fact, Spanish-language media outside Argentina tend to use the word 'alcalde' to refer to mayors of Argentinean cities. In the same way, English-language media refer to Argentine cities' heads of government as 'mayors', not 'intendants'. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 181.1.0.193 (talk) 08:37, 19 March 2012 (UTC)

Not an English Word

If someone had for once picked up an actual dictionary, they would have realized that intendant is not an English word (unless you mean the historical, i.e. obsolete military/ administrative position). That is the problem with this entry. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.225.52.204 (talk) 08:11, 22 March 2014 (UTC)

Requested move 27 September 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: moved. (closed by non-admin page mover) Vpab15 (talk) 18:44, 5 October 2021 (UTC)

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Intendant (government official) → Intendant – This was moved in January 2019, I infer because of the (apparent) UK meaning of the word as "[opera] theatre manager", so perhaps the intent was to create a DAB. However the article Theater manager, to which Intendant (opera) redirects, gets around a third of the views that Intendant (government official) gets. Intendant (opera) itself has had a mere 1949 views in 32 months. The official is plainly the PT.

All other titles starting "Intendant" are "Intendant of" somewhere and thus would be WP:PTMs. Stats since January 2019 here. 85.67.32.244 (talk) 05:46, 27 September 2021 (UTC)

• Pinging @Espoo: who moved the page at 13:09 on 19 January 2019, and @Gerda Arendt: who created the redirect Intendant (opera) at 15:58 same day. 85.67.32.244 (talk) 05:53, 27 September 2021 (UTC)
• Comment: In Germany, Intendant means mostly opera manager, not government, but when I linked that I arrived at misleading destinations and was surprised. I'll watch. We should have disambiguation. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:12, 27 September 2021 (UTC)

Intendant already redirects to Intendant (government official), there's a hatnote to both theater manager and opera manager. Nevertheless, opera manager only had 733 hits since 1 January 2019, whereas the official had 28,035 and the redirect Intendant 35,259. I think it is safe to say people are not clicking through the hatnote very often. I noticed you created Intendant (theatre) at the same time, but not Intendant (theater). 85.67.32.244 (talk) 07:27, 27 September 2021 (UTC)

• Support. No idea where anyone got the idea that "intendant" commonly means a theatre manager in British English. It's incredibly obscure and probably antiquated. The principal meaning is very definitely the government official. -- Necrothesp (talk) 13:06, 30 September 2021 (UTC)

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