Talk:Flowerpot

Possible vandalism
I've removed two statements from this article.

"It is less commonly known as a dramiticatius ironicus, and is the Latin root for Plants Ahoy."

The only google results for this link to this Wikipedia page.

"For people who wish to know, an average flower pot diameter is"

Unfinished sentence, not encyclopedic.

Haddock420 (talk) 18:12, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

After the AfD
Given the result of the AfD, the decision now is what to rename to. I suggest Pot (plants). --Tryptofish (talk) 17:20, 30 October 2009 (UTC)


 * Tally up the AfD page, I am personally (slightly) favour flower pot or flowerpot with a link to a main article on container gardening, which already exists. Casliber (talk · contribs) 23:40, 30 October 2009 (UTC)

I very strongly favour flower pot or flowerpot. Unless there are differences in national varieties of English then I can't understand why any of these different strange expressions are being proposed as the title when there is a common English word (or phrase) for this object. Phil Bridger (talk) 23:50, 30 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Flower pot and Planter would be the most common terms for containers that plants are grown in, around here. Hardyplants (talk) 04:14, 31 October 2009 (UTC)
 * OK, not that big a deal to me! Do we agree on "Flower pot" then? --Tryptofish (talk) 18:20, 31 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Aha, but with or without the space? :) Casliber (talk · contribs) 20:01, 31 October 2009 (UTC)
 * I'm so tempted to answer "yes"! During the AfD discussion Abductive found that with-the-space is more prevalent on Google searches, so I say with the space. --Tryptofish (talk) 20:26, 31 October 2009 (UTC)
 * I'm happy to support a move to flower pot. Planters are something different (bigger, less round, and not made of clay). —David Eppstein (talk) 07:54, 2 November 2009 (UTC)
 * They still make flower pots out of clay? (rhetorical question). Most flower pots these days are made out of plastic, which has many advantageous over clay. Hardyplants (talk) 08:02, 2 November 2009 (UTC)

I tried to move to Flower pot, and couldn't because the page already exists (a redirect back to here), so an admin will need to do it. I trust that there are willing admins among those of you watching this talk, so I won't take it to the request board. Thanks! --Tryptofish (talk) 22:51, 3 November 2009 (UTC)


 * Check the dictionaries. We can't use a misspelling for a common object. I don't see anything above that argues against using the right spelling. I'm changing it back. FurrySings (talk) 01:00, 12 December 2012 (UTC)


 * See the online dictionary entries :,, , , , , , , , . I've also checked real hard-copy dictionaries, they all list 'flowerpot' not 'flower pot'. FurrySings (talk) 01:15, 12 December 2012 (UTC)
 * I personally have no objection to renaming the page to the one-word spelling. In fact, I'd even support it. But there are two problems, and you really ought to fix them. First, you renamed some of the image file names, so now the images do not display. Second, the page name needs to be made consistent with the text, so you ought to propose a requested move. --Tryptofish (talk) 02:46, 12 December 2012 (UTC)
 * I've fixed those things. --Tryptofish (talk) 21:01, 12 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Thankyou. FurrySings (talk) 23:34, 12 December 2012 (UTC)