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On 1 November 2024, it was proposed that this article be moved to Home renovation. The result of the discussion was Move Home improvement (disambiguation) to Home Improvement.

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Perhaps add a page for the sitcom?—Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.59.91.123 (talk) 21:39, 30 November 2004 (UTC)[reply]

The page is there except the I of Improvement is capitalized.—Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.246.227.50 (talk) 21:08, 1 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I think if you type home improvement, it should lead straight to the disambiguation page —Preceding unsigned comment added by 63.215.29.200 (talk) 23:23, 2 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Trivia Section

Added a trivia section and moved the stuff about TV shows into it from the introduction. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.134.61.255 (talk) 22:06, 22 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Lists of trivia should be avoided. Please see Wikipedia:Trivia sections. Thanks, Pdcook (talk) 14:14, 10 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

External Link

Hi my name is Chad Clark and I own www.home-projects-diy.com, which is an informational site on home projects. I would like to put a link on my page for wikipedia because I believe there is a lot of valuable information here for the do it yourselfer. I would like to habe a backlink as well. Please consider my request and thank you for your time. Thank You, DIYProjects (talk) 14:54, 21 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

You don't need permission to link to Wikipedia - go for it. However, it is not appropriate for this article to link to your site unless it would add to the article - see WP:ELNO. --Alynna (talk) 13:45, 7 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I also want to know the most complete. I will visit this discussion board later. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Arnardi (talk • contribs) 23:49, 14 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Reward offered

Editors of this article who may be interested in some cool cash, take heed! - 2601:42:C100:9D83:D139:E3C0:4FBC:7F82 (talk) 17:00, 25 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination of Portal:Home improvement for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether Portal:Home improvement is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The page will be discussed at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Home improvement until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the page during the discussion, including to improve the page to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the deletion notice from the top of the page. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 09:23, 27 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed merge of Renovation into Home improvement

NO MERGE

Consensus indicates that these topics are too dissimilar to merge Joyous! Noise! 02:08, 15 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

Both articles describe the same subject, and have largely similar content. —CrafterNova ^{[ TALK ] [ CONT ]} 09:44, 6 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose, as these are distinct topics warranting separate coverage: renovation is about more than homes, and include maintenance as well as improvement. Klbrain (talk) 21:50, 12 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose, as renovation can be renovations to other buildings and ideas besides homes. This is prevalent in the article as it also discusses ideas of community renovation and commercial renovations. Hansen.lindsey15 (talk) 13:44, 14 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose per Oppose comments above. Libcub (talk) 04:10, 1 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

Requested move 1 November 2024

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: Move Home improvement (disambiguation) to Home Improvement. Editors express consistency with other similar disambiguation as well as a disagreement of PRIMARYTOPIC on Home Improvement. For now, Home improvement remains not moved. (non-admin closure) 𝚈𝚘𝚟𝚝 (𝚝𝚊𝚕𝚔𝚟𝚝) 17:57, 20 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

– Home renovation currently redirects to Home improvement, rather than to either a separate article on Home repair or to a general article on Renovation. Thus, it is likely that a majority of users who type "home improvement" are searching for the familiar TV sitcom. Those researching how to remodel a house probably know the sitcom's title and may prefer to type "home renovation". In any event, there is no need for Home improvement (disambiguation) to carry the parenthetical qualifier "(disambiguation)" since all the other entries use uppercase "I". The lowercase Home improvement can then redirect to the renamed uppercase Home Improvement dab page which would, of course, still carry an entry stating — "Home improvement, alternative name for Home renovation". — Roman Spinner (talk • contribs) 23:55, 1 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose. I believe Home Improvement (TV series) is the primary topic for "Home Improvement"; however, a look at the previous RMs there show a pretty clear consensus. 162 etc. (talk) 16:41, 2 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose first, support second. I believe the common name for the topic is its current title. But I fully agree the disambiguation page is actually disambiguating the proper noun and should have that title. (I also believe the sitcom is the ptopic, but as 162 says, that is not the consensus.) Mdewman6 (talk) 22:55, 2 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose first as unnecessary, support second per DIFFCAPS. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 05:23, 5 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose both -- see prior RMs for the TV show [1] and [2] which discuss why it shouldn't be the primary for Home Improvement but also as discussed there the DIFFCAPS is problematic. TiggerJay (talk) 02:51, 8 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Comment. Judging by the above four votes, there is no support for Home improvement → Home renovation, but two support votes for Home improvement (disambiguation) → Home Improvement. Since the latter nomination still retains a possibility of succeeding, it may be noted that there are a number of other main title headers that can be considered as analogous:

Brand new is not the primary topic of the Brand New disambiguation page.
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Escape velocity is not the primary topic of the Escape Velocity disambiguation page.
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Also, for editors who continue to feel that the uppercase Home Improvement (TV series) should be the primary topic of an uppercase Home Improvement (disambiguation) page, which currently redirects to the lowercase Home improvement (disambiguation) page, there is the example of Iron maiden, which is not the primary topic of the lowercase Iron maiden (disambiguation) page since that page currently redirects to the uppercase Iron Maiden (disambiguation) page, which has the uppercase Iron Maiden — analogous to the uppercase TV series Home Improvement — as the primary topic. —Roman Spinner (talk • contribs) 22:17, 9 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

But apparently Growing pains and Growing Pains live in harmony just fine with hatnotes. I do not understand why Home Improvement and Home improvement don't as well. Mdewman6 (talk) 09:18, 18 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.