Talk:General Israel Putnam House

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Opening comment[edit]

Some text was deleted--I didn't see any reason, so I assume it was an accident. Anyway, the 2nd paragraph doesn't really make sense, but I don't know enough about the topic to fix it.D2vge (talk) 21:24, 19 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Move proposal (first, withdrawn)[edit]

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The result of the move request was: Withdrawn in favor of a better name. J Clear (talk) 23:43, 2 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Putnam House → Thomas Putnam House — There are many related Putnam Houses (see Putnam House (disambiguation)) and I don't see any compelling "primacy" of the current article here. If anything, Rufus Putnam seems more prominent. This page should be moved to the more explicit name, which is based on the historical plaque on the side of the house (see File:Putnam House, Danvers, Massachusetts - side view.JPG). Then the dab page should be move here. Review WP:PRIMARYTOPIC when discussing. J Clear (talk) 23:44, 1 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Comment. The infobox and a redirect call it the Gen. Israel Putnam House and a this calls it the Israel Putnam House. Station1 (talk) 22:20, 2 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

NPS Focus lists it as Gen. Israel Putnam House, too (modulo a few commas). I'm going to close this discussion and open a new one to name it that way. --J Clear (talk) 23:43, 2 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Move proposal (second)[edit]

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The result of the move request was: moved per above —Ed (talk • majestic titan) 07:41, 10 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Putnam House → General Israel Putnam House — Restarting move proposal with a new name, see above discussion for details. Will add Thomas Putnam House as a redirect instead. --J Clear (talk) 23:43, 2 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The insertion of "General" does not appear to be a common name attribute. Israel Putnam House appears to be the most common, even amongst the outside links included in the article.--Labattblueboy (talk) 05:04, 4 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hmm, a quick Google shows many of the "Israel Putnam House" references are to the building in the Putnam Cottage article, which is owned by the Israel Putnam House Association. At a minimum "Israel Putnam House" is ambiguous and I wonder if some of those wikilinks are wrong. Anyway that and the NRHP title including "Gen." are why I'd like the longer name. I wish these famous people (cough)Washington's Headquarters(cough) would stay put. ;-) --J Clear (talk) 15:36, 4 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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