Talk:Storey

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[edit] Redirect to Floor

While I disapprove of this being turned into a redirect without discussion, I agree that changing it to a redirect was a good idea. --RealGrouchy 01:27, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

This article was basically a rewording of paragraph 4 and 5 from Floor, so I treated it like a content fork. However, if you'd prefer, we can change it back to an article and send it through WP:AFD. --Bobblehead 01:55, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
I try not to understand all the complex procedures for this type of thing. The end result is the same. I have no objection to status quo/no further action. --RealGrouchy 04:47, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Term "storey"

Some 60 years ago I was taught that the term "storey" denoted the vertical component of the habitable living space in a structure. The common corruption "story" to denote building levels is but one of many accepted definitions of "story", while there has only been the one definition of the term "storey".

Perhaps someone could check on this and edit the article accordingly. 74.166.84.7 11:46, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Romania

Why are Roman numerals even in Romania not used for floor numbers in elevators? --88.77.238.104 20:06, 14 July 2007 (UTC)

Err, I hope that's sarcasm...why would Romania be using Roman numerals...? --86.144.174.235 20:16, 15 July 2007 (UTC).

Good lord, that is a particular type of ignorance not often encountered in the pages of wikipedia. --FreemDeem (talk) 17:07, 26 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Suggestions for improving this article

I'll do my best to pitch in here as I can over time, but for now I wanted to at least note some ideas for this article.

  • The whole "ground floor is floor 0 / 1" thing is covered about five times in five different ways; it would be good to pare this down and try to come to a definitive conclusion as to what parts of the world use what."
  • There's one reference to the ground floor being marked with a star that seems to indicate this is a sometime or whimsical thing. My impression is that at least in the US, it's probably required by fire code. Having a definitive statement (with citation of course) would be useful.
  • As the tag says, there need to be lots more references.
  • The "Numbering" section has one part that completely lost me:

The principal floor is the floor that contains the chief apartments, whether on the ground floor or the floor above; in Italy they are often on the latter and may be known as the piano nobile. The floor below the ground floor is called the basement even if only a little below ground level, or the lower ground floor; the floor in a roof is known as the attic or the loft. In the U.S., the expressions one pair, two pair, etc., apply to the stories above the first flight of stairs from the ground (see also carpentry).

My questions: what are "chief apartments" ? Where is this term used? Does this apply only to apartment buildings? Private homes? Some other usage I'm not familiar with? Is this the same as "master bedroom" as used in the U.S.?
In Italy, "they" -- what "they"? The chief apartments again? Is it "they" that are the piano nobile, or the floor they're on? Following the link, I learn it's the name of the floor of a private house, usually a house of the type we'd call a mansion in the US.
The next sentence needs some rephrasing, since it appears to say that something is called the basement even if it's the lower ground floor. I think that's fixed by straightforward copyedit, though.
I'm a U.S. native, and I've never heard the expressions "one pair" or "two pair" to refer to stories, so even if this is correct and I'm the ignorant one here, I would say the article should assume others will be equally clueless -- a reference would be good. Maybe it's regional? The link to carpentry was uninformative.
  • The section on "Idiosyncrasies" feels a bit breathless in its apparent surprise that lower building floors might have non-numeric names. I find this to frequently be the case in high-rise buildings, especially hotels: "Mezzanine" is certainly very common, for the reasons given in its article.--NapoliRoma 00:09, 20 July 2007 (UTC)