Forum:"The" Location

I've seen a number of cases of what I'm pretty sure is an erroneous use of the word "the" in front of location names. For example, I see a lot of mentions of the Great Bay Temple, but it's not supposed to have a "the" (according to my understanding of the language), I should just say "I've seen a lot of mentions of Great Bay Temple." In this particular case, I can find numerous in-game instances of it being called Great Bay Temple, with no "the".

As far as I know, one is only supposed to say "the" in front of the name of something when there are multiple of the thing being named; the "the" indicates the specific one being mention (usually by virtue of context). For example, there are multiple Fairies, so "The Fairy gave Link a cookie" is correct, but "Fairy gave Link a cookie" is not. That would imply the Fairy is named Fairy, when in fact she is named Celes. There is but one "Great Bay Temple", and so there is no confusion or grammatical error in me saying "Are those things in Great Bay Temple electrical lights? What's up with that?". I'm pretty sure I remember seeing these "the"s being specifically added by actual admin-folk though, so wanted to check what the deal is. Is there a specific rule about this I'm missing in A; American English or B; ZP itself?--Fierce Deku 01:11, January 20, 2011 (UTC)