Talk:Apple Infinite Loop campus

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The result of the move request was: moved. Undiscussed move reverted after request in

Oppose but open to alternative options. Apple Campus is necessary to have disambiguators for Apple Campus 3 and Apple Park, the former of which was known as Apple Campus 2. Since there are multiple Apple campuses, using the original title is too ambiguous, though I would be open to alternative disambiguating proposals such as maybe Apple Campus (Infinite Loop) InvadingInvader (userpage, talk) 18:38, 20 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Comment "Apple Campus" is still part of the actual name (just read the sign in the article photo), but I agree that "campus" is also a bit ambiguous, since it's also a descriptive term for a collection of buildings used by the same orgnaisation (which fits all 3). I'd support Apple Campus, Infinite Loop, or Apple Campus (Infinite Loop). EditorInTheRye (talk) 21:08, 20 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Comment. In response to a recent undiscussed move (

WP:RMUM), you can summarily reverse the move. At that point, people can make a new request to move the page — after discussion and consensus. I suggest withdrawing this request and returning the page. SilverLocust (talk) 04:03, 21 April 2023 (UTC)[reply

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Nom may or may not know that

WP:RMT exists. I've requested the reversions there. Let's see what a page mover says. Rotideypoc41352 (talk · contribs) 09:25, 21 April 2023 (UTC)[reply

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Y Moves reversed.

Works (contribs) 11:05, 21 April 2023 (UTC)[reply

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The result of the move request was: No consensus. There seems to be consensus that this article should not be at the current title, but there is absolutely no consensus on where it should be instead, including at the proposed title, or whether it's not the title that should change, but the scope of the topic. I hesitate closing this, but I'm pretty sure no consensus will result from this particular proposal. I can't even glean a preferable option to the current title per

Additionally see results are much lower for "Apple Campus" "Infinite Loop" than results for "Apple Infinite Loop". See also Google Trends. InvadingInvader (userpage, talk) 17:12, 21 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Is this "Campus" 1) just the 6 IL buildings, 2) the IL buildings plus M3 and DA3 (the buildings on the same side of De Anza Boulevard), or those buildings plus some or all of the buildings on the other side of De Anza? See

Guy Harris (talk) 20:49, 21 April 2023 (UTC)[reply

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For what its worth, a Google search for "apple campus" pops up a link to maps.apple.com that shows Infinite Loop, without the other buildings as "Apple Campus". (It also finds links to articles about plans for an "Apple campus", lower-case "c", in

Guy Harris (talk) 21:00, 21 April 2023 (UTC)[reply

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That map was made in 2009 so it may be out-of-date. Perhaps Apple doesn't still occupy all of the buildings on that map. The following statement in the article seems outdated to me as well: Besides the buildings on Infinite Loop, the whole Apple Campus occupies an additional thirty buildings scattered throughout the city to accommodate its employees. Some of these buildings are leased (with an average rental cost of $2.50 per square foot), while others are of recent acquisition; the land that the new buildings occupy will be used for future construction of a second campus in the city with the aim of centralizing the activities of the company. Presumably the "second campus" is Apple Park. – wbm1058 (talk) 21:42, 21 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

For what it's worth, back in 2021, Apple purchased 10500 N. De Anza Blvd., 20605, 20665 and 20700 Valley Green Drive, and 20400 Mariani Ave. If Google Maps and the map at

Guy Harris (talk) 23:32, 21 April 2023 (UTC)[reply

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• Alternative proposal use
  WP:NATURALDAB -- 64.229.90.172 (talk) 17:41, 21 April 2023 (UTC)[reply
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  • Support both original and alt proposals. InvadingInvader (userpage, talk) 17:42, 21 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose. The article shows there are six buildings on Infinite Loop, and
    1 Infinite Loop is just the flagship, former headquarters building. Others are 2 Infinite Loop, 3 Infinite Loop, etc. The article title shouldn't narrow the scope from an entire campus to just a single building. – wbm1058 (talk) 20:46, 21 April 2023 (UTC)[reply
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  • Oppose - "1 Infinite Loop" refers to a particular building and, it appears, to the entire Infinite Loop complex, by
    Guy Harris (talk) 21:22, 21 April 2023 (UTC)[reply
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• Support as per nomination and my comments in the previous discussion. EditorInTheRye (talk) 17:52, 21 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
• Support - as per nom.Onel5969 ^{TT me} 19:49, 21 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
• Lowercase campus. The term is descriptive, not a proper noun. An Ngram analysis shows lowercase more popular. —⁠ ⁠BarrelProof (talk) 05:42, 22 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

So which of their campuses should the page describe?

Guy Harris (talk) 07:27, 22 April 2023 (UTC)[reply

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I suppose the suggestion is to move it to Apple campus (Infinite Loop) or Apple Infinite Loop campus or Infinite Loop (campus) or or Infinite Loop (Apple campus). Some form of disambiguation may still be needed. —⁠ ⁠BarrelProof (talk) 11:49, 22 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

• No lowercase. It remains a proper noun, even if it's an uncreative name that can be mistakenly used lowercase descriptively. Support as proposed, or as Apple Campus, Infinite Loop. oknazevad (talk) 11:55, 22 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
• Current title seems fine, and the proposed titles aren't great. If a move is needed, the original nom (uppercase) might be best, but as Guy Harris said, Apple's former campus is more than just Infinite Loop (which is indeed just IL1-6). Synecdoche feels too imprecise for an article title. Hatnotes are valid disambiguation techniques, so what would a move achieve, that isn't already addressed by the hatnote? DFlhb (talk) 13:03, 23 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
• Oppose. The term "Apple Campus" is found in a great many sources. Binksternet (talk) 22:57, 23 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

  May I kindly request that you provide such sources? InvadingInvader (userpage, talk) 02:48, 25 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

• Support some kind of rename, but not exactly as proposed; maybe
  1 Infinite Loop. The term "Apple campus" (sometimes capped) is common enough in sources even from 1998, years before Infinite Loop existed. When I worked in 1 IL in the 90s, I never heard of calling the place "Apple Campus". Sometimes "Apple Infinite Loop" or "Infinite Loop campus" perhaps, or just "Infinite Loop", but we still had an extended campus in the neighborhood, so without "Infinite Loop" there was no good way to refer to it. Dicklyon (talk) 07:02, 27 April 2023 (UTC)[reply
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• Support some kind of rename per Dicklyon. Per the OP there are many Apple campuses. Hence we have Apple Campus (disambiguation). Raw Google searches are not good evidence to use. We could instead look at news sources for "Apple campus" (216,000 hits) and Apple "infinite loop" (1,100 hits). Google books is another metric: "Apple campus" (1,940 hits) and Apple "infinite loop" (7,920 hits) but "Apple Infinite Loop" (218 hits usually styled in the possessive - "Apple's Infinite Loop"). Perusal of the first few search pages does not exclude hits for an endless loop but are mainly about Apple. It is fairly clear though that "Apple campus" does not just refer to the first campus which is the subject here. I'm not certain if we can establish conclusively whether this article is actually the "primary target" intended by our readers, given the broad use of the term "Apple campus" in sources. It is also clear from the ngram evidence that campus should not be capitalised.

The evidence would indicate that, rather than having

WP:COMMONNAME. "Infinite Loop campus" is not a redirect/title and has 125 hits at Google books. "Infinite Loop" presently redirects to infinite loop. While I am not a fan of disambiguation purely by caps, this is nonetheless a possibility. "1 Infinite Loop" is also a redirect to here. Some arguments are made that the campus extended over more than just the lot of 1 IL. This is somewhat pedantic argument. 1 IL was nonetheless the address of the campus, as evidenced by this article and supported by sources observed in the Google Books search. To summarise: natural disambiguation (eg "Apple Infinite Loop" or "Infinite Loop campus") is preferable over parenthetical disambiguation but is also less concise than the other options. "Infinite Loop" is acceptable and most concise, even if disambiguation by caps alone is (IMHO) less than optimal. "1 Infinite Loop" is a middle ground. Cinderella157 (talk) 03:02, 28 April 2023 (UTC)[reply

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The result of the move request was: Moved to Apple Infinite Loop campus. Consensus arrived at Apple Infinite Loop campus. (closed by non-admin page mover) – robertsky (talk) 13:25, 5 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Addendum 9/21/2023: Apple Campus (disambiguation) → Apple Campus. For additional context, see previous proposal. InvadingInvader (userpage, talk) 16:06, 21 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

• Oppose. Under
  WP:PRIMARYTOPIC) should carry the place's name without any qualifiers or "tags" in the title. Since Apple Campus 2 was renamed Apple Park and is now more widely known under that name, the only "Apple Campus" that could be readily confused with the original Apple Campus in Cupertino is Apple Campus 3 in Sunnyvale. Under Wikipedia:Disambiguation (specifically, "Deciding to disambiguate"), when we have only two primary uses for the same term: "The other use is linked directly using a hatnote; no disambiguation page is needed". Both articles already link to each other in their first paragraphs. --Coolcaesar (talk) 16:50, 16 September 2023 (UTC)[reply
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Pinging editors from the previous discussion for their input: @

Guy Harris, @Wbm1058, and @EditorInTheRye InvadingInvader (userpage, talk) 16:04, 21 September 2023 (UTC)[reply

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• Comment – I agree the current title is not ideal, per reasons I gave in the previous RM. Where is the evidence that this term was ever treated as a proper name referring to the Infinite Loop campus? I've not seen it. The sometime use of the term "Apple Campus 2" for what got named "Apple Park" is not such evidence. And I hope Binksternet will take another look at the common uses of "Apple Campus" and "Apple campus" and see what they refer to, and whether the ones referring to the Infinite Loop campus are consistently capitalized. I'm pretty sure not. I'd lowercase in the disambig page title, too. I'd support Apple Infinite Loop campus or Apple campus (Infinite Loop). And Apple Campus 3 is similarly problematic; there's no evidence (that I can find) that that's its name. Dicklyon (talk) 16:42, 21 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Google Books returns a lot of results for "apple campus". However, I will concede that "Apple campus" (with "campus" in lowercase) seems to be the predominant usage in books by professional journalists and historians. There are also a few mentions mixed in there to "Apple campus representatives" (with respect to Apple's aggressive sales moves in the edtech space). The only results I am seeing that refer to "Apple Campus" with capitalization of both terms appear to be self-published works, works from very small publishers, or works which are obviously reprinting text scraped off Wikipedia. As for your latter point, if you review the references in the Apple Campus 3 article, the architect seems to think Apple Campus 3 is its name. --Coolcaesar (talk) 02:29, 25 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

    After a look at the four sources cited in the Apple Campus 3 article, three of them call it "Central & Wolfe". One of them uses "AC3", and the architecture firm uses "Apple Campus 3". —⁠ ⁠BarrelProof (talk) 03:06, 25 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

• Comment I generally agree with DL's comment. Particularly concerning capitalisation of campus. I would tend to support Apple Infinite Loop campus more than the other proposals. It is more natural than using parentheses. The word order is also more natural. Cinderella157 (talk) 00:22, 23 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

  I would support Apple Infinite Loop campus as well. InvadingInvader (userpage, talk) 20:31, 24 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

  Same, Dicklyon's comment is convincing and I'd support Apple Infinite Loop campus or Apple campus (Infinite Loop). The problem with Infinite Loop campus is its lower clarity and recognizability if "Apple" isn't in the title. DFlhb (talk) 10:49, 25 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

  • Do you have any citations for that phrase? Under
    WP:PLACEDAB, the proper name would be Infinite Loop campus, since no other company uses the term "Infinite Loop" and therefore there is no need for additional qualifiers in the article title. --Coolcaesar (talk) 02:29, 25 September 2023 (UTC)[reply
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    • Yes, see book search. They vary, but "Apple Infinite Loop campus" is among the variations on what it's called. Dicklyon (talk) 16:23, 26 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]
      • No, those sources either interpose other words between Apple and Infinite Loop, or if they do use all four words in order, it's always with an apostrophe to show ownership, as in "Apple's Infinite Loop campus." Again, under
        WP:PLACEDAB and circulated on the village pump for discussion by the WP community. --Coolcaesar (talk) 17:01, 27 September 2023 (UTC)[reply
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        • At least this one uses "Apple Infinite Loop campus". I'm not claiming it's a "name", and would be just as happy with "Apple's Infinite Loop campus". As I said, "They vary." But I disagree that just "Infinite Loop campus" is a good title, in spite of some editors' push toward minimalism. And most of these books do say "Apple" pretty close to where they say "Infinite Loop campus". Dicklyon (talk) 03:35, 28 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]
          • Well, that push towards minimalism has been the majority consensus on WP for about a decade, over my strenuous objections. Please review the extensive talk archives for the policy and guideline pages I've linked, as well as
            WP:PLACEDAB since including Apple in the article title appears to be a conflict with that guideline (because Infinite Loop is sufficiently unique). --Coolcaesar (talk) 15:26, 28 September 2023 (UTC)[reply
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• Move to
  One Infinite Loop. See sources: [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] And by the way, for those doubting "Apple Campus" is a proper name, here's an image of the sign: [8]. InfiniteNexus (talk) 17:50, 25 September 2023 (UTC)[reply
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  Signs generally use title case. This sign identifies the site as the Apple campus at 1 Infinite Loop, and the styling has nothing say about whether they intended any of that as a proper name. Interesting sign though; it wasn't there back when I worked there, I'm pretty sure. As for the smalldetails hack, no, I oppose

  Infinite Loop. Dicklyon (talk) 16:18, 26 September 2023 (UTC)[reply

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  What about

  One Infinite Loop? InfiniteNexus (talk) 17:09, 26 September 2023 (UTC)[reply

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  That's the address, and the name of the main entry building, but I don't often see it referring to the campus (which also has buildings 2 through 6 Infinite Loop). Dicklyon (talk) 03:50, 27 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

  That sign has been on De Anza Boulevard for over a decade (and I have my own photos of it but didn't bother to upload them to WP). I would support

  Infinite Loop as a reasonable compromise, though I think Infinite Loop campus sounds better. --Coolcaesar (talk) 15:26, 28 September 2023 (UTC)[reply

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• Alt proposal: Apple Infinite Loop campus is supported by Dicklyon, Cinderella157, InvadingInvader, and DFlhb above. Anyone else? Any other alternatives with more than a supporter or two? Dicklyon (talk) 03:42, 28 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

   Sounds good to me too. —⁠ ⁠BarrelProof (talk) 23:38, 28 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

   Works for me. --SarekOfVulcan (talk) 14:11, 3 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

• Also Apple Campus 3 move to Apple Wolfe campus. I'll probably start a separate RM after this one closes, but wouldn't mind getting some reactions here while we're at it. They sign it as "Wolfe Campus", but I don't see that used much as a proper name. Dicklyon (talk) 04:00, 28 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

   Sounds good to me too. —⁠ ⁠BarrelProof (talk) 23:38, 28 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]