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Requested move 26 August 2018

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The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the move request was: not moved. (non-admin closure) The editor whose username is Z0 10:18, 3 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]


Ford (disambiguation)Ford – There is no clear primary topic here, Ford (crossing) is the original and traditional meaning of "Ford", there is also Gerald Ford, the 38th President of the United States and Henry Ford, the founder as well as places and a few other meanings. Crouch, Swale (talk) 10:03, 26 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]


The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page or in a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.

Ford's listed at Redirects for discussion

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An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Ford's. Please participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. Shhhnotsoloud (talk) 07:53, 28 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move 25 August 2021

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The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: Consensus to move (non-admin closure) (t · c) buidhe 02:09, 22 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]


Ford (disambiguation)Ford – No primary topic for "Ford" since the crossing has considrable long-term significance and there is also Gerald and Henry Ford as well as a large number of places and other uses. There was a clear consensus at Talk:Ford Motor Company#Requested move 15 August 2021 not to move the company to "Ford" partly due to ambiguity and partly due to common name and a reasonable consensus that the DAB should be at the base name but was probably not done per Wikipedia:Requested moves/Closing instructions#Moves of other pages and it was noted a separate RM would be needed. The company can be kept at the top along with the crossing like with Mercury along perhaps with Gerald and Henry. This issue has been debated for years but if the DAB is moved to the base name the issue should be resolved. The crossing is the origin of the surname and probably all or most of the other uses. There are also very often links intended for the crossing that point to Ford, see User:Certes/misdirected links. Crouch, Swale (talk) 20:42, 25 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I also stated that I agreed with the existing consensus that Ford (Motor Company) is the primary topic for Ford so what is your point? Of course consensus can change (and perhaps it has) but I'm not seeing anything here which differs from the old discussion in terms of the reasoning or arguments being made. I also think that some users here may be forgetting that wikipedia is made not for us, but for the readers, and so determination of a primary topic should be based on their expectations, not ours. A7V2 (talk) 01:59, 22 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]
I don't think so. Atlantic City, New Jersey falls within WP:PRIMARYREDIRECT because it is "it is titled differently according to the naming conventions". There's no such convention for car companies: we have Honda, not Honda Motor Company. Havelock Jones (talk) 18:57, 21 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]
The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

Early history

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Then, from 26 November 2004, the Ford redirect's revision history is up to 98 revisions as a low-level edit war over the target simmers. – wbm1058 (talk) 03:45, 11 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Revision history of the redirect was swapped to Ford (disambiguation) (in lieu of burying it here) and is now up to 102 revisions. – wbm1058 (talk) 05:26, 22 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Archives

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Note to closer, Talk:Ford has significant discussion on this issue so if this proposal is successful Talk:Ford should be relocated rather than deleted and replaced with this page, maybe Talk:Ford/Old? Crouch, Swale (talk) 19:10, 29 August 2021 (UTC)

@Crouch, Swale: Talk:Ford/Archive 1wbm1058 (talk) 04:10, 22 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]