Talk:Small office/home office/Archive 1

Archive 1

Challenging content

SOHO=Virtual Business? Since when? --tooki 14:30, 30 Aug 2004 (UTC)

I am always a little cautious in taking out text that others have put in, thinking that eventually I would run across a confirmation of what they wrote but I have to admit that after several months of looking at this I have not found the slightest basis for these sentences concerning a virtual business and the unfulfilled promise of it. There is something very real about SOHOs but it is not this virtual business concept. AlainV 01:24, 31 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Software development has a 36/48hr cycle?

I DIDN'T GET THE EFFING MEMO! Why didn't anybody tell me? Can you please cite? User:Project2501a 15:11, 28 Jan 2005 (UTC)

I have no precise book or article but about half the computer corporations (or corporation s with large software developement departments) I have been acquainted with in the last 20 years have a few software developers (usually their best) working for a 36 or 48 hour stretch, then sleeping ten, twelve, fourteen hours, then working for another 36 hours, and so on. Their work and rest cycles did not fit with the normal solar day. --AlainV 02:17, 29 Jan 2005 (UTC)

I disagree with this. I have worked with developers suffering from delayed sleep phase syndrome and others who were simply night owls. Both prefered to start work late and work into the night, but I have never come across any developer who could consistently work for 36 or 48 hours at a stretch without sleep. I have seen people work through the night as a one-off due to a deadline, but after doing it once, they were in no condition to do it again. Your example of someone who regularly works 48h, then sleeps for 14h would imply a 62h cycle. It is accepted that some people (approx 1 in 2000, or 0.05% of the population) have a natural 25/26h cycle - but I've never seen a case where someone has a 62h cycle. If you want to include this claim, you will need a reliable source 87.112.153.66 (talk) 23:27, 27 December 2010 (UTC)

The article Homesourcing has recently been started which is about this same concept. I've merge tagged both articles. hydnjo talk 12:57, 12 March 2006 (UTC)

Name change?

The name of this article really doesn't fit with the subject. It really should be "Small Office-Home Office" or similar. The slash denotes an XOR condition in this case, which is kind of sloppy. As well, the Wikipedia syntax makes this page a subpage of the nonexistent (and rightly so) Small office page. --Kickstart70·Talk 15:39, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

(This is ported over from the Help Desk.) I do not believe there is any reason for a name change. "Small office/home office" is by far the predominant form in common usage, which according to WP:NAME should be the article title. There is no presumption of "an XOR condition"; this is common idiomatic usage, not an article about logic or mathematics. And the sub-page issue is a triviality: it's only incorrect to create substantive sub-pages in article space. The fact that the slash creates a sub-page is a trivial artifact of how the MediaWiki software works, presents no practical problem, and is much less important than using the correct title for the page. To give some examples, AC/DC is technically a sub-page of AC because of this artifact, but no one has a problem with that. The same is true with Other articles with slashes in their titles include F/X, f/stop (a redirect, but still a valid title in article space), Either/Or, System/360, AS/400, and many, many more. (Those were just a few that came immediately to mind.) It's just not an issue. MCB 22:11, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

Actually, after further reading, this section of WP:NAME seems to indicate the sub-page behavior is no longer the case in article space in the current MediaWiki software, so it's not an issue at all, and the only issue with slashes is avoiding the suggestion of a hierarchy of articles, which obviously is not the case here. MCB 22:17, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

Using of this name

Is this name used in all English-speaking countries or only in a particular one (for example USA)? 16@r 17:36, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

requested move

Small office/home office was moved to Small office on 18 April 2008. The reason given in edit summary was: "Picking one title and going with it, and then one can disambiguate the rest. "Small office/home office" is incredibly sloppy, and kind of indicates that the article has an identity crisis and can't..." However, small office/home office is not two titles. It is one. Other forms include "small office and home office", "small and home office", etc. The two terms are usually used together to refer to this type of office. That's why it is often called as SOHO. Small office is not a right term for this concept. It cannot express the meaning of "working at home". So I propose to move Small office back to Small office/home office or rename it to Small office and home office or Small office, home office. --Neo-Jay (talk) 23:36, 26 September 2008 (UTC)

•  Done I moved Small office back to Small office/home office at 22:37, 30 September 2008. --Neo-Jay (talk) 14:13, 1 October 2008 (UTC)

Small office/home office?

Why is there a slash in the title? This is a highly unusual article title and against naming conventions Wikipedia:Article_titles#Disambiguation. Teemeah ^{편지 (letter)} 09:30, 4 May 2020 (UTC)

@Neo-Jay: please read the naming conventions! Teemeah ^{편지 (letter)} 09:31, 4 May 2020 (UTC)

@Teemeah: The naming conventions require that the common name should be used as the article title (see Wikipedia:Article titles#Use commonly recognizable names). "Small office/home office" (with a slash) is the common name (that's why it is abbreviated as SOHO). So small office/home office should be used as the title. For previous discussion, see "Talk:Small office/home office/Archive 1#Name change?". --Neo-Jay (talk) 07:10, 5 May 2020 (UTC)

""Small office/home office" is by far the predominant form in common usage" - where is your source for that? I have never seen this term like that with a slash commonly used, it's either, or one or the other. Teemeah ^{편지 (letter)} 08:43, 5 May 2020 (UTC)

• Please see the search results of "small office/home office" by Google, Google Scholar, and Google Books. And by the way, that ""[s]mall office/home office" is by far the predominant form in common usage" was said by MCB (at 22:11, 7 April 2006), not me. --Neo-Jay (talk) 08:59, 5 May 2020 (UTC)