Talk:Geo-fence

Inaccurate term?

The most common use of this term is "geo-fence" not "geofence." This article uses erroneous nomenclature. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 63.226.104.225 (talk) 16:58, 11 March 2010 (UTC)

What is the source for this "most common" claim and that "geofencing" is erroneous nomenclature? Testing this claim using Google shows that "geofencing" is more common for Google Search, Google News and Google Books. Only Google Scholar shows a slight edge for "geo fencing". I can't see how the single-word versions are erroneous nomenclature. Note that result counts for the two-word versions are not as reliable as they are based on the intersections of the individual words.^[1]

Term	Google Search	Google News	Google Books	Google Scholar	Citations
"geofencing"	2,020,000	11,800	781	1,320	search news books scholar
"geo fencing"	330,000	2,160	538	1,760	search news books scholar
"geofence"	370,000	1,640	372	1,280	search news books scholar
"geo fence"	356,000	900	312	1,150	search news books scholar

--Marc Kupper|talk 22:43, 14 January 2015 (UTC)

I am ready to edit the article to change all instances of "geo-fence" to "geofence". This word has been quite common in civil engineering - especially GIS-related - for over 2 decades (Google Books will show you that). It is quite common in the English language to eventually drop the hyphen in a previously hyphenated word. For example, the word "ink-well" was broadly-adopted after 1840, peaked around 1900, and declined substantially through 1940. This is because the non-hyphenated "inkwell" took off after 1900, and continues to be the dominate spelling. With geofence, while both spellings have been increasing in usage since roughly 2000, "geofence" is quite dominant over "geo-fence". Having said all of that, I believe readers of this article could benefit from having a consistent representation of the word throughout rather than having every other word spelled differently.

Philbayer (talk) 00:48, 2 December 2020 (UTC)

References

This article needs to be moved back to the correct title

It looks like it was started with the correct title, then the term in the article was changed to the wrong spelling (with the hyphen), then at some point someone moved the title to match the spelling in the article. Now that the spelling in the article has been changed, this term needs to be moved back to the correct spelling, geofence. Coolcaesar (talk) 13:55, 5 July 2023 (UTC)

• I moved "content" back to Geofence and made Geo-fence a redirect. Not sure if this was the proper way to do it, but Move Page was not an option because the destination already existed. Cru121 (talk) 06:58, 23 April 2024 (UTC)

  Dear colleague. The "cut-and-paste" move creates multiple issues, see WP:CUTPASTE). Use procedures for "technical moves" in WP:MOVE. In my opinion, BTW, the proper title would be Geofencing. Викидим (talk) 19:45, 23 April 2024 (UTC)

Requested move 22 July 2024

Geo-fence → Geofence – per previous ngram results and discussion. also possibility of using gerundive form instead (i.e., Geofencing) by suggestion of Ahecht. Tule-hog (talk) 23:01, 21 July 2024 (UTC) This is a contested technical request (permalink). Tule-hog (talk) 02:35, 22 July 2024 (UTC)

I don't see any reason not to move back to "Geofence". Vacosea (talk) 22:30, 22 July 2024 (UTC)