Talk:Olympic Village

olympic-village

In athens olympics 2004 the state build an olympic-village to host the athlets. After olympics the state sell these appartmets to people, and now is a new town. the peaple who live build an assotiation, that has an web site and a free forum.

olympic-village site [1] olympic-village forum [2]

Article about the 1924 Paris Summer Games suggests that the first Olympic Village was built for that event, not for 1932 LA —Preceding unsigned comment added by RicardoJuanCarlos (talk • contribs) 16:36, 9 December 2009 (UTC)

Requested move 17 February 2018

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The result of the move request was: consensus not to move the page at this time, per the discussion below. If this proposal is revisited in the future, please be sure to present evidence related to the usage of the term in reliable sources. Dekimasuよ! 06:59, 24 February 2018 (UTC)

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Olympic Village → Olympic village – Surely this word is a noun rather than a proper noun? This article refers to the general concept of Olympic housing rather than a specific place, so I see no reason to treat it like a proper noun. The adjective "Olympic" is still proper though, since it originally refers to Mount Olympus. Thank you. Gaioa (t,c,l) 10:01, 17 February 2018 (UTC)

• Oppose good faith nom, per common name. The Olympic Village is actually a "thing" opposed to a concept, as every Olympics creates it. Per Olympic Stadium, which is the common name for the main stadium of every Olympics, the name "Olympic Village" is transferred from Olympics to Olympics, and is commonly known to constitute the living quarters and day-by-day social activities of the athletic participants. Randy Kryn (talk) 11:31, 17 February 2018 (UTC)

• I know what it is, I am only talking about grammar. I believe it is a noun rather than a proper noun, and thus should not be in camelcase. Thank you. Gaioa (t,c,l) 13:11, 17 February 2018 (UTC)

From the page it seems Camel case is an upper-case letter appearing in the middle of a word (iPhone, etc.), which doesn't apply here. Olympic Village seems to have become, historically, a proper noun. I added this RM to the Olympics Wikiproject talk page. Randy Kryn (talk) 13:17, 17 February 2018 (UTC)

• Per n-grams the upper-case seems correct since the term's inception]. Even though n-grams were lost to the world in 2008 this one seems to provide adequate evidence for the upper-casing. Randy Kryn (talk) 13:40, 17 February 2018 (UTC)

• But is that not because the word frequently appears when talking about a certain place, such as "Beijing Olympic Village" and other forms of "Foo Olympic Village". Those are proper nouns, but this is not. This is a term for the general thing. Note that the lead reads, quite correctly, "An Olympic Village is..." rather than "The Olympic Village is...". And since when do we use indefinite articles for proper nouns? We don't. Thank you. Gaioa (t,c,l) 13:47, 17 February 2018 (UTC)

• Per Olympic Stadium and Olympic Park (and even Olympic Games) these things seem to have taken on the status of transferable proper nouns. And thank you for bringing up an interesting topic. Randy Kryn (talk) 14:13, 17 February 2018 (UTC)

• Oppose per Randy - Olympic Stadium, Olympic Park and Olympic Games are all uppercase, See no reason to change this to lowercase. –Davey2010^Talk 15:28, 18 February 2018 (UTC)
• Oppose - It is a proper noun whenever/wherever it is built for the current/upcoming Olympic games. — Coffee // have a ☕️ // beans // 09:13, 23 February 2018 (UTC)

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