Talk:Mansion

message: According to the external link on the first paragraph, it was stated that mansion is defined (by size) to be at least 8 000 square feet. In the paragraph this was 6 000, so I corrected it to 8 000 square feet.
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It stated in the article that the term "McMansion" is exclusive to North America. I changed it to say that it originated there because this term is now used readily in Australia as well.
--Dulberf 04:04, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
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message: I've tagged this page for reasons above. Also, "The term 'palace' in England is reserved to a mansion which is the London residence of a member of the Royal Family or an episcopal seat in a cathedral city." - Buckingham Palace belonged to the Duke of Buckingham, long ere it became royal; the Duke of Hamilton lived durng the 17thc. at Chelsea Palace. Beaulieu Palace, Woodstock Palace and Beaumont Palace are all without London. Furthermore, in Scotland, as I assume the writer is referring to the UK in this article, there is Hamilton Palace, Dalkeith Palace, Scone Palace, Seton Palace, Spynie Palace, the Palace of Monimail, Falkland Palace and on. The Royal palace of Holyroodhouse was in effect, from the 1640's until the late 19thc., the Edinburgh abode of the Duke of Hamilton. These are or were no mere merchants' townhouses. Brendandh 22:50, 31 May 2007 (UTC)
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message: Is there a definition of a Mansion as distinct from a country house, chateau or villa? I seem to recall that to be classed as a true "mansion", a dwelling had to have at least 40 rooms, be symmetrical, and contain a ballroom. Regardless of the truth of this statement, I believe the article still needs a definition.--Yeti Hunter (talk) 05:26, 15 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Wikipedia is not an dictionary. We don't necessarily have to define the word itself, but summarize the secondary sources and what they have to say. No, I have never heard such a distinction for "Mansion". In fact there are a number of mansions all over the world with far less rooms and no ballroom.--Mark Just ask! WER TEA DR/N 18:50, 8 August 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: That's a good point Mark. I don't think that there is a definitive definition of a mansion. If a mansion must have a ballroom, then you would have to exclude Blenheim Palace, Belton House and Montacute House to name but just a few mansions without ballrooms; Compton Wynyates is far from symmetrical and does not have a ballroom either, but is most certainly a mansion. In my distant youth, I was once told a mansion had to have a front and back staircase, but I'm not sure that's true either - although I can't think of a mansion that doesn't. I think that the only all encompassing adjective for a mansion is 'large', but then that would give us a problem with Ebberston Hall].  Giano  21:14, 8 August 2013 (UTC)
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message: Does this article really need a disambiguation for "Luigi's Mansion" ??  Are people really searching for a video game when they type in the single word "mansion" ??  98.232.219.86 (talk) 14:43, 23 July 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: No; and (outside a Google search) no. I've edited the disambiguation page. --Picapica (talk) 11:33, 16 September 2012 (UTC)
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message: I was quite interested in the history section of the page which stated that mansions developed in the 15th century. I would like to look more into this but it seems there is no source for the claim. If I missed the source, please present it here. If there is no source, I would suggest adding some source to back that claim up because even I'm struggling somewhat to find information about the history of mansions. W.C Cross (talk) 16:24, 4 August 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: The term Mansion seems to be time and place sensitive as to definition in terms of size or facilities. In some backward parts a house with only six bedrooms might at one time have been considered such, whilst at another time and place one twice the size would be considered in lesser terms. The term also seems to be restricted to European influenced areas. It would be good to have sources for the different adoptions of the term.SovalValtos (talk) 16:50, 4 August 2020 (UTC)
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