Talk:ZIP Code

Requests for deletion - kept
Kept. See archived discussion of February 2008. 07:00, 27 February 2008 (UTC)

Note about the move for capitalization
I moved this page from ZIP code after someone inquired about it at the corresponding page on English Wikipedia. The corresponding move occurred on English Wikipedia in 2016 pursuant to a discussion I initiated there.
 * Also see Requests_for_moves,_mergers_and_splits. – Jberkel 22:04, 22 March 2021 (UTC)

RFM discussion: January 2018–March 2021
User:Largoplazo moved ZIP code to this spelling with the following edit summary: They also left the following comment on the talk page:
 * This is a trademark, a brand name, of the U.S. Postal Service, for the U.S. version of what are generically known as "postal codes"
 * I moved this page from ZIP code after someone inquired about it at the corresponding page on English Wikipedia. The corresponding move occurred on English Wikipedia in 2016 pursuant to a discussion I initiated there.

Rather than just jerking it (and the plural) back with a rude comment about how this isn't Wikipedia and how we're a descriptive dictionary, I thought I would bring it here so we can be sure we do it right. The problem is that determining relative usage of different case forms is rather difficult. Plus, there should be entries at both case forms, with one as the alt form. There are also other case-form entries such as zip code that were unaffected.

I should add that there's a 2008 RFD discussion linked to from the talk page. Chuck Entz (talk) 14:51, 23 January 2018 (UTC)
 * This may help. —AryamanA (मुझसे बात करें • योगदान) 23:02, 23 January 2018 (UTC)
 * This slightly improved Google N-gram (1960-2008)] shows that, in order of frequency in the sampled books the frequency order is zip code, ZIP code, Zip Code, ZIP Code, Zip code, ZIP CODE, with zip code being about 10 times more common than ZIP CODE and about 5 times more common than ZIP Code post 2000. There are also some solid-spelled versions, but they are much less common, though the most common zipcode is about as common as ZIP CODE.
 * It's so much better to have credible corpus-based facts than the speculations of the 2008 discussion. DCDuring (talk) 02:04, 24 January 2018 (UTC)
 * BTW, the collocation "international zip code" is suggestive that some English speakers think of zip code as including any post/postal code. DCDuring (talk) 03:18, 24 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Checking the latest ngram corpus data, not much has changed. And according to ZIP Code, the trademark already expired in 1997, so this whole renaming business is/was a bit pointless IMO. – Jberkel
 * I went ahead and split this into a trademark / generic sense, and yes, does get used to refer to non-US  codes. – Jberkel 22:01, 22 March 2021 (UTC)

RFD discussion: June–December 2021
Not the obvious common noun, but a proper noun: "(US) A service mark of the US Postal Service for postal codes." This doesn't seem like dictionary material; we are not a trademark registry. Equinox ◑ 16:19, 10 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete, search engine will offer zip code. (Updated) Cheers, Facts707 (talk) 13:14, 25 June 2021 (UTC)


 * Keep. AG202 (talk) 19:06, 5 October 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete this spelling. Vox Sciurorum (talk) 20:38, 20 October 2021 (UTC)
 * Proper noun deleted. - -sche (discuss) 21:47, 5 December 2021 (UTC)