Talk:Old Quaker Meeting House (Queens)

"Meetinghouse" or "Meeting House"?
I think the article should be moved to Old Quaker Meeting House. This is what it's currently known as (see, ,) and googlefighting them (with space, without space) shows 236 hits for the title with a space, rather than 173.

However, Doncram pointed out that the National Historic Landmarks Program (NHLP) has the building listed without a space.

As a Quaker in the UK, I've only seen the phrase 'Meeting house' as two words. I doubt that it's different in the US, and I think the the NHLP must have got it wrong. I reckon that most people will assume to use two words.

What do other people think?

Thanks, Drum guy (talk) 15:18, 2 January 2008 (UTC)


 * It is a fact that the U.S. National Park Service webpages for National Historic Landmarks sometimes have gotten it wrong. One can contact the National Park Service, and request review and correction of a mistake in their pages.  But why so sure this is not the correct name?  You are commenting from afar, and without any new references showing what common usage is now, or what historic usage was.  Your argument is that it looks wrong to you.  If it bothers you, perhaps you could do the research and the correspondence and get the National Park Service to change their website.


 * For starters in this case, the NHL webpage linked from this article uses "Meetinghouse" and that is in agreement with the National Register Information System listing for the site. On the other hand, the NRHP Inventory/Nomination document linked from the article uses "Meeting House".  I went with the 2 out of 3 "vote" for "Meetinghouse". doncram (talk) 15:48, 2 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Thanks for getting back. I assume that it'd be consistent with the normal name of Friends meeting houses; the page I linked to is part of the official New York Yearly Meeting site - I think that would be correct, as the people currently involved with the Old Quaker Meetinghouse have direct access to it.


 * Drum guy (talk) 16:21, 2 January 2008 (UTC)


 * I still don't see an example of Friends' usage refering to this site. The New York Yearly Meeting webpage that I find my way to from your links, refers to a meeting at 17 Rutherford Place, not to a meeting at this site.  Can you provide a specific link to the "people currently involved" and/or show how they refer to this site?  Otherwise, your assumption on what current and/or historic usage is/was, remains unsupported.  It remains more your view of what the name of the site "should" have been to match a need of your own for consistency. doncram (talk) 19:00, 3 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Oops, I am sorry, i did not see the "official site" link that was added to the article sometime. That's good enough for me. doncram (talk) 19:07, 3 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Great, thanks very much! :) Drum guy (talk) 23:06, 3 February 2008 (UTC)