SiGarb

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Hello, SiGarb. I see that you converse with Brookie on this page and indeed Brookie was helping me somewhat with the mechanics of this. The article, to which I have substantially contributed (mostly, at this stage, editing - but I will be adding some material later) - was originally called [[Buckingham Palace Gardens]]. That, as one or two highly respected editors point out, sounds ghastly, cv Kensington Gardens. I renamed the article [[Buckingham Palace Garden]] , which works better.

Because the Palace themselves refer to it as "the garden" I have followed that procedure in the article, although that couldn't be used as a title, because, as you rightly point out, very few people would recognise it under that name. (Certainly Mad Sq Gn and Cov Gdn spring more quickly to mind.) The major book on the Garden ("The Garden at Buckingham Palace") is an unwieldly article title but if you insist, I will change the name again and cross-ref all the other articles once more. I think that [[Buckingham Palace Garden]] reads quite well. The ___location is referred to in at least half-a-dozen other articles. The book uses a small G, but I employa capital as when one is talking about a specific ___location. e.g. the palace - could be anywhere, but the Palace - specific.)

So I put it on the disambiguation page because it is truly just called "the garden." There's me being apurista purist. (To be honest, I also hope that it would also attract some readers - some of what a disambiguation page does, I think - piques the curiosity.)

I note that you're interested in folklore and mythology - I did alot of work in younger days with Old and Middle English; currently I'm training to be a City of London Guide.

I have paraphrased this note on The Garden talk page and hope that you don't object too much to my adding this to the list.

Have, like you, dealt with Brookie, who kindly helped me somewhat through the renaming procedure I've just described.

I have paraphrased this on The Garden talk page and hope that you don't object too much to my adding this to the list.

Best wishes. -- [[User:FClef|FClef]] [[User talk:FClef| (talk)]] 18:08, 18 January 2007 (UTC)