Talk:Street name

message: Hi, how about including abbreviations like Rd = Road, Pl = Plaza, Sq = Square, Pde = Parade, Ct = Court, Gdns = Gardens La = Lane, Drv = Drive, Clo = Close, Grn = Green, Gt = Gate, Pa = Path? I was looking for that without success. Thanx, --Flingeflung (talk) 11:17, 1 March 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Are those all standardized by Royal Mail or the like? — US Postal Service standard for Drive is DR. —Tamfang (talk) 21:57, 7 May 2018 (UTC)
replies: text:  Agree. I believe Wikipedia should explain things like "Ct" at the Ct page. In order to do so, given how many of these two- and three-letter pages are disambiguation pages, we need a "landing page" which mentions them all. (You can't have disamb entries that doesn't link to articles mentioning the search term, or other editors can and will remove these entries). At the moment, I'm holding off to see how the current merge proposal ends. CapnZapp (talk) 10:20, 21 December 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Abbreviations 

message: :
Georgetown continues to have a nominal existence, I'd say, in that there continues to be a place named Georgetown.  How about: "As part of the final integration of Georgetown into Washington …" —Tamfang (talk) 08:41, 8 May 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  the obliteration of Georgetown 

message: I propose automatic archival of this talk page, and will set it up shortly assuming no objections.  CapnZapp (talk) 13:29, 13 December 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  autoarchive 

message: I propose that Street suffix be merged into Street or road name#Street type designations, per . I want this discussed before I embark on adding/linking street name abbreviations that are not obvious. Personally I'm equally happy either way, just as long as I can forestall further attempts mid-work. CapnZapp (talk) 13:33, 13 December 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: As an alternative, you could add this merger proposal to WP:PROPMERGE in an effort to garner more feedback. CapnZapp (talk) 10:29, 2 January 2019 (UTC)
replies: text:  That may be best. I don't believe that the lengthy listing of suffixes is encyclopediac or useful - it belongs more on Wiktionary than Wikipedia - but clearly it would help with your redirect project. This article isn't a primary interest of mine so I'm not really interested in putting forward a huge about of work on it. Pi.1415926535 (talk) 22:40, 2 January 2019 (UTC)
replies: text:  If you're ready to abandon your drive to delete (merge) the Street suffix article, that's fine. Just tell me and I'll close this merge proposal, and hopefully I will have a stable target for my changes for the foreseeable future. (If you have any input on how to send readers to Wiktionary, feel free to share, just as long as a search for, say, "ct" here on Wikipedia leads the reader somewhere useful.) Again thanks CapnZapp (talk) 09:17, 3 January 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merger proposal 

message: :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) 13:03, 30 May 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Street or road name →  – There is evidence that the term “street name” is more widely-used. See pageviews,  Google Trends, Google Ngrams and Google Search (2 million more hits). Additionally, the "or" seems unnatural and inconsistent with other titles. Cheers! 🐶 EpicPupper (he/him | talk) 00:23, 22 May 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requested move 22 May 2022