Talk:The Garden

Buckingham Palace Garden???

Buckingham Palace Garden was recently added to this list by FClef. Although I'm sure that those who live and work at Buckingham Palace refer to its garden as The Garden, I'm not convinced that the phrase has a much wider currency outside that circle. If you said "The Garden" to any random Londoner, I reckon they'd be more likely to think you meant Covent Garden or the Royal Opera House (which often styles its productions as "Such-and-such at the garden" – so I've added that to the list). Outside London, even fewer would recognise which garden you meant. FClef, if you – or anyone else – can cite some evidence to the contrary, please do. SiGarb | Talk 23:39, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

• My evidence is Buckingham Palace itself, where I worked for a time about 10 yrs ago. In addition, there is a book about the garden ("The Garden at Buckingham Palace") which I cite in the article. It does actually use a small g - i.e., the garden. I agree with you that most people would probably not know this and certainly Covent Garden or indeed Madison Garden spring to mind more quickly. However, the Palace did say that they always refer to that space as "the Garden" and indeed they themselves would not really call it Buckingham Palace Garden (name of the article, which I have done substantial editing - ongoing - on); however, that title, is infinitely preferable to "Buckingham Palace Gardens" (plural), which was the original title of this article. Thanks for your input. -- FClef (talk) 17:58, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

Hi FClef. Of course they themselves would not really call it Buckingham Palace Garden. Why would they? But, as I said, almost any garden is referred to by those who work in it, in their everyday discussions, as "the garden". I'm afraid that "the Palace did say that they always refer to that space as "the Garden"..." counts as original research in Wikipedia terms: it has to be quoted in a source that you can cite. Cheers. SiGarb | Talk 21:10, 18 January 2007 (UTC)