Talk:Caretaker

Wording
"A dog is a zoological term used to describe an animal with four legs."

"In zoology, a dog is an animal with four legs."

This article began like the first sentence above; I changed it so that it begins like the second. An epidemic of sentences of that form took place on Wikipedia a few months back; is it now returning? Someone even wrote:

"A centanarian is a term used to describe a person who..."

instead of

"A centenarian is a person who...". Michael Hardy 20:56 29 May 2003 (UTC)


 * How right you are. However, having used the very term you object to, I find that the way I have qualified it means that it makes best sense to keep it in this particular article. Hope you agree. Naturenet 21:56, 27 Nov 2004 (UTC)

New section needs help
The topic of property caretaking needs to be discussed, but the new article has stylistic problems (at least). Someone more qualified than myself needs to fix it. Also, I am starting to wonder if this article needs to be converted to a dab page and then split into articles describing the literal and political senses. Rlquall 04:05, 21 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Time to split?
I really think "caretaker government" deserves its own page. Especially due to the recent exposure the term has gotten from the Iraq invasion/occupation. See Coalition Provisional Authority. --Naha|(talk) 02:05, July 15, 2005 (UTC)

?
I think there is a major flaw in this article, in that, in contemporary times, the word caretaker is used in English (i.e. English/British English, at least), to refer to anyone that takes care of a building, usually a state-owned building, i.e. school. A caretaker is usually the head of the school cleaners, for example, much in the way as in states, you have 'janitors', a caretaker is a responsible for day to day maintenance, but it is a paid job in contemporary times, and in larger schools/colleges a head caretaker is a fairly well-respected position, i.e. estates manager. Helzagood 23:04, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

Addition of "The Caretaker" (character from "The Shining")
I'm aware that Jack Torrance is the written name for the protagonist of The Shining, but he is known as "The Caretaker" in the movie... Could this disambiguation be added, please? 174.247.240.4 (talk) 03:17, 7 June 2024 (UTC)