Talk:Changing room/Archive 1

message: I have a problem with the use of the terms "change room" and "wash room".
The problem is that these terms are confusing.
"Change room" could be a command to a hotel clerk, i.e. I'd like to change from one hotel to another.
"Wash room" could also be a command to a hotel clerk, i.e. I'd like the bedroom to be washed.  The bedroom is not a washroom, but is merely a room one might like to have washed.
When there are various terms, I think we should choose the one that's clearest, i.e. use Occam's Razor to pare down to the simplest term.
Thus I fail to see the benefit of adding one byte (a blank space) between "wash" and "room" or getting rid of the "e" in changeroom and replacing it with "ing " (four bytes for one).  The extra three bytes don't buy extra clarity, in fact they buy negative clarity.
This desire to Americanize everything often makes things less clear.  See for example the difference between GFCI (the American term) and RCD.  The American term is not only ambiguous, but also just plain wrong, because an RCD has nothing to do with ground.  It just so happens that ground is one possible way electrons can try to violate Kirchoff's Current Law... Glogger 04:35, 8 Oct 2004 (UTC)

message: -       Sometimes a changeroom is referred to as a "change room", but such terminology leads to a non-uniqueness, e.g. the phrase "change room" can also mean for a person to move from one room to another room, or to change a room booking (e.g. to change rooms at a hotel). "Change rooms at a hotel" could mean one of two things:
-       *To change a room booking from one room to another, or to change from one room to a different room;
-       *A place in the hotel, e.g. the public swimming baths or public bathing area, where patrons change their clothes.
-       For this reason, the term "changeroom" is preferable to the term "change room". Preceding unsigned comment added by Gloggger (talk) 04:40, 8 October 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Changeroom or "change room"

message: This should be moved to changing room which is a term that can be universally understood. Changeroom makes no sense to me. Mintguy (T) 09:24, 12 October 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: move to changing room

message: This article is written from a Canadian POV. Most of the examples are from Canada, and presented as the only way changerooms are. It would help if this article were expanded to include areas not in the Western world, as well as the UK and Europe. The United States also seems to have been left out.
I have also copyedited the article completely and edited out a lot of text which was speculative. This article is not sourced at all and badly needs it. I probably won't be watching this article, but I did want to put forth the issues I saw instead of tagging and leaving. Happy wiki-ing! --Keitei (talk) 05:51, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I only counted two examples from Canada and one from Germany.  I'm not sure anything more is needed; if those two examples had been from the US instead of Canada, I doubt anyone would have noticed.  As for the sources, I agree.  The late section on terrorism, acclimatizing males to communal undress for military purposes, and anthrax scares is downright bizarre and probably ought to go (original research, at the very least).  Powers 14:28, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Globalize 

message: This section was simply full of all kinds of ridiculous unsourced information and original research, as well as being largely off-topic. The talk surrounding this article's recent VFD seemed to arrive at a conclusion that this information has no place in this article, so I've removed this section. A brief mention of actual trends in changeroom styles may be appropriate, but owuld need to be re-written and probably doe snot warrant it's own sub-section.
74.60.80.39 22:32, 26 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removal of "Trends in Changeroom Design" section 

message: Old messages:  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Anthony Appleyard (talk • contribs) 09:15, 18 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Archives

message: :Feel free to state your position on the renaming proposal by beginning a new line in this section with *Support or *Oppose, then sign your comment with ~~~~. Since polling is not a substitute for discussion, please explain your reasons, taking into account Wikipedia's policy on article titles.
*Oppose.  I'm not convinced that "changeroom" (as awkward as it sounds to my ears) is any more "regional" in nature than the other possible terms for this type of room.  It's been at Changeroom since the very beginning, in 2004, so I daresay we would need some sort of evidence that some other term is far more common.  Powers T 18:38, 5 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Survey

message: The article mentiones that some changing rooms had security cameras. Can someone proove this? I would not want to change in front of a camera, I doubt that anyone else would want to. -- 62.156.55.33 (talk) 21:50, 14 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Security cameras in changing rooms 

message: I have a question regarding the exact meaning of the word "changing room": In English, are shower rooms and locking facilites (which may be outside the changing room) regarded as part of the changing room or are they considered to be outside the changing room and something seperate? Ok, this may be a bit off-topic here but I think that the article should be extended to answer this question. -- 79.238.164.126 (talk) 03:11, 25 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Definition: What is part of a changing room and what isn't? 

message: I think that the heading "locker room" is not quite appropriate (or we may need to add another type of changing room). I have been to changing rooms with no lockers at all. These changing rooms are solely supposed to be used by groups which change at the same time (school classes, clubs, etc.) and the whole room would be locked so noone could steal anything. As there are no lockers in these rooms, they cannot be called locker rooms. -- 62.156.55.33 (talk) 21:35, 14 January 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: I changed the heading to "communal changing rooms". I'm not sure if this term is appropriate. Anybody who has a better suggestion can feel free to change it. -- 79.238.164.126 (talk) 04:14, 25 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Locker rooms with no lockers? 

message: This article claims that people who change at public pools ALWAYS have to do this in front of strangers of their own sex. This is not correct, at least not where I live. Here in Germany, public pools usually have gender-neutral changing cubicals (where you can change in private, without anyone watching, and you got a door that you're supposed to lock) as well as gender-segregated changing rooms where you cannot hide from others. Showers are mostly gender-segregated gang showers. -- 79.238.170.25 (talk) 17:54, 11 January 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: So add the word "usually" to the sentence in question.  Powers T 22:18, 11 January 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: "Usually" isn't enough, most (public) pools that I know of have changing stalls. Pools that don't have them are the exception. -- 79.238.164.126 (talk) 03:12, 25 June 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Please, just make whatever change you feel is necessary.  If you don't want to do so without consensus, at least propose a specific change here.  Powers T 15:22, 27 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Individual changing cubicles? 

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message: A paragraph about unisex changing rooms (not green rooms) could be included. As I'm not too familiar with the concept of changing rooms, I'm writing this on the talk page so others who've done more research can judge better. There's a negative article about unisex changing rooms in The Sunday Times today . wumbolo ^^^ 09:21, 2 September 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unisex changing rooms?