Talk:Caretaker
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Wording[edit]
"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[edit]
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?[edit]
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)
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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)