Talk:Roommate

Merge Flatshare with this article, not the other way around. English wikipedia should reflect American english, because the number of people in the world who speak American standard english is far higher.

--- I am just wondering is there any college dorm at all offering a room with the opposite sex? -- Taku 17:27, 14 Sep 2003 (UTC)
 * proscriptive pronunciations on "standard english" (sic) should only be made by people aware of basic capitalization issues. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 61.213.76.163 (talk) 08:14, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
 * English wikipedia should reflect English English as the language originated there. Besides, Flatshare and Housemate are unambiguous. Thanks to American English using Roommate as someone sharing any form of living arrangement, and not just a bedroom, Roommate is ambiguous. --92.8.105.118 (talk) 12:54, 11 April 2010 (UTC)

I disagree with the deletion. -- Taku 02:57, Dec 8, 2004 (UTC)

It seems like there are a lot of commercial roommate finding services trying to get links here, should we do something about that?

I am frantically searching for a WORD which means hostel mates. Can some one help me on this please... USER: Ananta Rao 15:00 IST, 23, Aug 2006 - THIS ARTICLE IS TOO EUROPEAN

This article is worthless. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.164.168.98 (talk) 19:59, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

There was a vandal post in the first sentence. I replaced it.Rockerflutist1 21:16, 26 August 2009 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Rockerflutist1 (talk • contribs)

Why do you think it's too European, it's called Roommate, in most of the world a room mate is someone that shares a room (like in a dorm) so it seems entirely US centric, as 95% of the world would be confused by the term. Also whats wrong with an article being Euro centric? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 210.86.95.180 (talk) 05:43, 28 October 2016 (UTC)

Merge
Share housing has similar information. Is this a POV fork? --Uncle Ed (talk) 18:26, 1 October 2009 (UTC)


 * Regarding the merge proposal which has been up since 2010 - I think the consensus (of what discussion there has been) on the merge is that share house is that Roommate should merge into Share house rather than vice versa. They're both pretty lousy articles, but they are shared knowledge and for better or worse true co-produced wikipedia articles. In the interests of resolving a dysfunctional impasse I'd suggest combining the best of both, redirecting and moving both under the title Share accommodation. I think Share accommodation is a better encyclopaedia term (and potentially, article) because it avoids regional terms and the type of accommodation the sharing is happening in. The reason not to use Shared accommodation is because that phrase would cover all forms of household - family and non-family and also institutional accommodation, whilst Share accommodation (I think) retains the sense of mainly non-family non-institutional households. A problem to this formula is that the word 'roommate' is used for cohabitants sharing a room in residential colleges, but is also commonly used in a slightly more confusing sense for people who do not share a room but share a flat, apartment, or house, for which usages a flatmate, or housemate article would be most appropriate. SeventhHell (talk) 23:42, 7 June 2013 (UTC)

real estate agent
"... with one or more of them having applied to rent the property through a real estate agent" - really? Why shouldn't they be able to rent it directly from the property owner? And what about subletting? (A fourth common option would be renting from a property manager.) --Martin de la Iglesia (talk) 07:57, 28 August 2014 (UTC)