Talk:Public space

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[edit] media and public space

hey, i think the definition of public space should be broader and also include webforums, or radiobandwith, or open fileservers, --85.28.83.179 20:32, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Proposed merge

I see that someone has proposed merging gathering place into this article. I tend to think this is a bad idea, because gathering places aren't necessarily public; in fact, several of the examples listed in the article are private spaces (churches, coffee shops, pubs). I've changed the tag to {{mergedisputed}} for now. —smably 23:03, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

Agreed - although gathering place should have a link to this page, I'll go do that now...--Cooper-42 00:52, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

i agree as well. i was checking this link because i have it in an article i'm working on (BookCrossing) and if it were merged with gathering place it would not be fitting. It would in fact be the opposite. - flipjargendy 18:38, 28 September 2006 (UTC)

i agree with the posts above, and would go so far as to suggest that it should be delineated through the text 'public space' that often the term itself is misunderstood or misappropriated.

i'll try and take this on without it turning into an overly long page, which it could, easily!.

I do not think that these can be merged. very simply, the wiki-definition of gathering place uses the word "private" saying that a gathering place could be public or private.

I don't think they can be merged simply because a public space is a gathering space but a gathering space is not necessarily a public space. - Comment left by Special:Contributions/74.67.251.167 on 18:22, October 9, 2006

by the same token, baseball is a sport, but a sport is not just baseball...see the point? - Comment left by Special:Contributions/134.53.50.69 on 10:02, November 28, 2006

I agree with the other comments above. No need for a merge. Strawberry Island 16:37, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

I left a note for User:Lapaz to comment on why s/he wanted to merge the article. Strawberry Island 17:28, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

I take here "public spaces" in the broad sense of the term — it does not hereby designates governmental spaces, but spaces accessible to general public. Hence, in this sense of the word, coffee-shops, etc., do qualifies as "public spaces", as they are not restricted to a specific type of persons (workers of the place, etc.) So is a church (open to all who desires to attend religious matters). But a factory isn't (entrance restricted to workers). The merge should be done in order to avoid overlapping and dispersion. If you folks feel a distinction must be made between a broad use of the term "public spaces" and a more restricted use, this should be done, but not, IMHO, by creating possible confusions. Lapaz 20:22, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

Well, your definition of "public space" clearly conflicts with the one used in this article. If you disagree with the article's definition, you should resolve that before trying to merge in other articles according to your idea of a public space. (Besides, some gathering places are unambiguously private. Consider private clubs, for example. I don't think there's any ambiguity there.) →smably 04:14, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

I'm reading this as a pretty strong consensus against merging, so I removed the tag. Mishatx *разговор* 04:51, 15 February 2007 (UTC)