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The result was delete. Ritchie333 ^{(talk) (cont)} 10:38, 17 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Co-operative living arrangement[edit]

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Not seeing it. People have shared accommodations since caves. Giving it a name does not mean it is notable, and this article seems more a vehicle for promotion than an academic exercise in describing a particular pattern of communal living. It doesn't matter what you choose to call it. John from Idegon (talk) 08:46, 25 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Social science-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 10:22, 25 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

• delete or Userfy to a WikiProject Cooperatives subpage. It feels like an essay in that it provides more of a general feel with current trends and common issues, while not providing much concrete information. I reckon this is partially because the topic is not precise enough to provide much concrete information. If it had more citations I would probably keep it, but this seems to be based on author's experience, and thus WP:OR. That said, I still hesitate to delete without better knowledge of whether the content here is already covered in other related articles, and hope that WikiProject Cooperatives will take responsibility for merging it appropriately. Sondra.kinsey (talk) 18:34, 4 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@John from Idegon: If possible, it would be great to rename it to "Co-living", analogous to "Co-working" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coworking Given that it's an age old phenomena according to you, I would assume it's worth acknowledging it with a modern term. also I am not sure if you guys consider Google trends data, but it shows that the search interest in the term coliving has increased over time. Dev098 (talk) 18:29, 4 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@Dev098: What's the article scope you're imagining? People live together in college, due to economic hardship, because they are members of a family, or to express their values. These are fairly different scenarios with fairly different dynamics, but are all people living together. This article uses terms like "Frequently" so much because Coliving is not a specific social structure in cultures this article is talking about. It's just something some people do, which may or may not change the nature of their relationships and habits. If you want this article to continue, I suggest finding scholarly sources that make more precise claims. Sondra.kinsey (talk) 19:10, 4 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@Sondra.kinsey: The motivations to live together in a shared community setting maybe different for different types of people around the world. For example, students do it to save money as well to create meaningful relationships as most of them don't have families in that city. On the other hand, there is a cult of global nomads who travel around the world living in co-living spaces in order to meet other like-minded people and collaborate on work. Mostly these are freelancers for programming and design. In my opinion, the article can be renamed and edited further with references to make it more legitamate. I'll work on doing so. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dev098 (talk • contribs) 19:16, 4 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

• delete What I'm seeing is that the phrase is used in a very generic sense, not as the kind of specific term for strangers living together in a single household: people talk about villages, communes, even prides of lions. "Sharing an apartment with friends" is a thing; this is just any kind of coordinated life together by anything. Mangoe (talk) 22:01, 9 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete - Fork of Co-housing, which is a thing. Carrite (talk) 04:38, 11 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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