Talk:Edinburgh Woollen Mill

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Comments

Page created using EWM websites details.

Subsequent edit product of further proofreading.

Should this page be titled "Edinburgh Woollen Mill (The)"?

Sleevicus 16:26, 27 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Over 50s comment reinstated and subsequently edited to over 40 (after change on original EWM website) AND cited reference.

Also replaced the (The)

The full name is The Edinburgh Woollen Mill, NOT Edinburgh Woollen Mill. Please discuss before further changes are made.

Sleevicus (talk) 23:36, 2 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Name of store

I'm pretty sure when the Carlisle store opened it was under the name of "The Edinburgh Woollen Mill of Princes Street" or someting similar. Penrithguy (talk) 16:51, 3 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Austin Reed

Details needed about the EWM acquisition of Austin Reed; how many stores and product lines? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.152.115.16 (talk) 15:08, 21 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move 12 December 2024

It has been proposed in this section that Edinburgh Woollen Mill be renamed and moved to The Edinburgh Woollen Mill.

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Edinburgh Woollen Mill → The Edinburgh Woollen Mill – reason 'The Edinburgh Woollen Mill' is the official title Icaldonta (talk) 23:49, 10 December 2024 (UTC) This is a contested technical request (permalink). Icaldonta (talk) 12:29, 12 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

~~Support~~ ' The Edinburgh Woollen Mill is WP:COMMONNAME Their official website: https://www.ewm.co.uk

Their UK company registration: https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/13599839

Google Image results, they always have their shopfronts saying 'The Edinburgh Woollen Mill'

Their Instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/theedinburghwoollenmill Icaldonta (talk) 12:29, 12 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I have struck through your expression of support. Wikipedia's guidelines say not to use that sort of boldfaced declaration, since your support is implied by the fact that you proposed the move. See WP:RM#Nom: "Nomination already implies that the nominator supports the name change, and nominators should refrain from repeating this recommendation on a separate bulleted line." —⁠ ⁠BarrelProof (talk) 13:57, 12 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Comments made by others previously at WP:RMTR:
I don't see any sources using "The" here. Sennecaster (Chat) 02:07, 11 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Per above, most reliable sources refer to the current title and not the official. ToadetteEdit (talk) 08:41, 11 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Icaldonta; this has been contested, so you will have to take this to a full RM if you wish to continue with the move, which you can do so by using the "discuss" button in your request. I will note, that we use WP:COMMONNAME and not the official name. Sennecaster (Chat) 08:08, 12 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose: Wikipedia's guidelines (WP:THE) say to look to independent sources. Wikipedia is indifferent to "officialness". All of the sources cited by the proposer are self-published material produced by the institution itself. As previously observed by Sennecaster, independent sources often do not include "the". Many examples are shown in the sources cited in the article. The abbreviation is also "EWM", not "TEWM". —⁠ ⁠BarrelProof (talk) 14:17, 12 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose per BarrelProof. YorkshireExpat (talk) 22:23, 12 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]