Talk:Caddie

message: For the sake of consistency, the article should use use one or the other (while still acknowledging the alternate spelling in the first paragraph).  My brief look at ESPN.com, PGA.com and PCAWorldwide.com shows that they all seem to use "caddie" all the time.  Personally, I couldn't find a single use of "caddy" on any of those sites using the search feature.  As it stands right now, the page redirects from "Caddie" to "Caddy" which doesn't make sense to me and both spellings are used randomly throughout the article.  I'm going to suggest that the page redirect to "Caddie" and for that spelling to be consistently used in the article, unless there is an objection.  GardenStateOfMind (talk) 21:21, 22 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Caddy or Caddie? 

message: //A caddy that can positively impact the psyche of their golfer, especially if the golfer is not consciously aware of what the caddy is trying to do, can be extremely valuable. Golf arguably relies on mental aspects of the body more than any other sport in today's world and if the mind is not comfortable, calm, and focused, disaster is likely to occur.// - what the hell, how is this on here?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.222.161.100 (talk) 20:11, 2 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  ahaha whats going on in this section 

message: This article seems to give too much weight to American private club caddies.  While I think that it's important to discuss caddies in a Country Club setting, I think that this article is noticeably lacking in discussing all kinds of caddies and the concerns surrounding them:  What about caddies in Scotland?  Their duties are much different, and entire books have been written on this subject.  What about PGA Tour caddies?  What about expanding the History section?
As much as I enjoy reading that, among other things, a caddy tells his player about "the size of his family" while the caddy is making small talk with the player, I think that this article needs to be re-written to focus less on American private club teenage caddies and more on, well, everything about caddies that isn't covered in this article.  --Rahzel 06:33, 4 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Focus on Club caddies? 

message: The section headed Caddy in the article seems to belong in the Wiktionary rather than on Wikipedia. Also, the last couple of sentences seem to miss the statistics they purportedly use. YuujiSajaki (talk) 16:09, 12 July 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Caddy 

message: Google "caddy or caddie": According to every online dictionary I could find, "caddie" is the dominant variant of this word.
For example, http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/caddie vs http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/caddy
Google "etymology caddy", and you will learn that "caddy" is a British term for a "small box for tea". http://grammarist.com/spelling/caddie-caddy/ explains the etymologies of these two distinct words, and mentions that "caddy" is now used about 1/4 of the time in news articles talking about caddies. Wikipedia should not be in the role of preferring a minority variant. Comments? ToolmakerSteve (talk) 11:31, 13 September 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: You may have a point, as there apparently is a Professional Caddies Association, a European Tour Caddies Association , the Commons page goes to 'Caddie', and Wikipedia has a List of Caddie Hall of Fame inductees, so there is likely a Caddie Hall of Fame as well. Looking up the Caddie Hall of Fame on google it seems every link referring to the job/position calls it 'Caddie'. Randy Kryn (talk) 04:07, 19 September 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Bear in mind that the plural of "caddy" is "caddies", not "caddys".  So, the first two organisations named do not demonstrate the prevalence of either spelling.  Ghmyrtle (talk) 11:33, 19 September 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks , good point. I put up an uncontested move request earlier, but with your note I added a comment there that maybe it should go to a full RM. Randy Kryn (talk) 11:47, 19 September 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Caddie is ~still~ the preferred form of this word (Google "caddy or caddie") 

message: There was a poorly attended move above which moved this article into baseline space. But page views show only 156 of 274 daily views. That's lower than the normal threshold we'd want to see. In ictu oculi (talk) 12:53, 19 September 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Earlier today I put in an RM to shift it to 'Caddie'. So we shall see, and could comment there once it's on the page. Randy Kryn (talk) 13:23, 19 September 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Is this page really [[WP:PRIMARYTOPIC]] for "Caddy"?

message: There is a move discussion in progress on Talk:Caddy (disambiguation) which affects this page. Please participate on that page and not in this talk page section. Thank you.  —RMCD bot 16:33, 19 January 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Move discussion in progress