Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Guest house (secondary suite)


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was   merge, probably to Guest house, although the exact destination may be discussed further on the article talk page. Stifle (talk) 08:33, 9 August 2010 (UTC)

Guest house (secondary suite)

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I don't see how this article will ever evolve beyond being a dicdef. Maybe merge those two short lines into Guest house (lodging)? bd2412 T 17:36, 17 July 2010 (UTC)  Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, JForget  22:19, 24 July 2010 (UTC)
 * I think that the distinction being propounded is that the one is a form of hotel, open to the public, whereas the other is, basically, guest quarters in a private home for visitors that form a secondary suite. Now whether that distinction exists outside of Wikipedia, and whether this is amply and properly addressed in secondary suite, is a different matter. Uncle G (talk) 19:12, 17 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete - It's just a definition of the phrase "guest house", which anybody could deduce to mean a house for guests. (I'm a little weary of Guest house (lodging) as well, but that's not the article up for deletion here.) — Parent5446 ☯ ([ msg] email) 20:39, 17 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete Seems like more of a wikitionary topic to me. Throwaway85 (talk) 23:01, 17 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep - The topic is very common and has received very significant secondary coverage. Merging this topic into Guest house (lodging) would be nonsensical as that is a different topic.--Oakshade (talk) 07:48, 18 July 2010 (UTC)
 * A guest house in the form of a secondary suite is still a form of "lodging", is it not? bd2412  T 15:42, 18 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Yeah, while I agree that the term "guest house" is probably used quite often to refer to a house where guests say, there is really not a big enough distinction for it not to be merged into the lodging article. — Parent5446 ☯ ([ msg] email) 16:05, 18 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached.

 Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks,   A rbitrarily 0    ( talk ) 18:08, 31 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached.


 * Merge into Guest house (lodging). I don't think that this article has enough content to justify having a separate article, and most of it is already mentioned in the Guest house (lodging) article. --Slon02 (talk) 18:22, 31 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Merge into Guest house (lodging) Secondary suite.--SarekOfVulcan (talk) 18:24, 31 July 2010 (UTC)
 * I agree that a merge is an acceptable resolution. bd2412  T 18:27, 31 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Redirect, but to secondary suite. Up until a couple of hours before it was nominated, it had a little bit of content in it,  -- either an incredible coincidence or a tag team effort, but I'll suspend disbelief in the interests of good faith.  There are other examples besides Kato Kaelin living in the guesthouse next to O.J. Simspon; there was the guy who lived in the guesthouse next to Sharon Tate's home as well, and probably examples in classic film-- but there's nothing here that couldn't be referred to in "secondary suite".  This isn't quite the same as "guest house lodging" where people pay for the privilege of being guests, such as a bed and breakfast, although thanks to the wonderful job of editing right before the nomination, that wasn't clear.  Mandsford 21:34, 31 July 2010 (UTC)
 * You'll find that the "wonderful job of editing" was really the editing that turned an article about guest houses (the form of hotel) into such confusion, by adding an example that wasn't about the subject, that it eventually resulted in one editor starting a completely new article, now to be found at guest house (lodging), on the very same subject as this article originally had in its early revisions (q.v.). It's the same editor who added that text in the first place that you are now suggesting conspired to remove it.  That fact renders such conspiracy theories at best rather ill-considered.  Uncle G (talk) 03:53, 1 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Dammit, my sinister plan for world domination will be ruined if our cabal can't engineer the redirect of this substub into a more complete entry! bd2412  T 04:19, 1 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep significant real estate phenomenon. It's a separate building, not just guest quarters, and figures largely in discussions & advertisements of luxury real estate   DGG ( talk ) 22:58, 4 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Merge to Guest house. This is the standard defintion of a guest house. Guest house (lodging) is equally poorly named and should be merged. The only difference is the one is owned by a hotel, the other by private persons. Also, a page Guest house (disambiguation) should be created. Abductive  (reasoning) 21:10, 8 August 2010 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.