Talk:Somos, Inc.

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Requested move 4 August 2016

Latest comment: 8 years ago5 comments4 people in discussion

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: page moved. wbm1058 (talk) 13:52, 20 August 2016 (UTC)Reply

SMS/800 → Somos, Inc. – new name of business Johnmh01 (talk) 18:22, 4 August 2016 (UTC) --Relisting. Andrewa (talk) 07:09, 13 August 2016 (UTC)Reply

Undid my closure, I do have a comment. Oppose as suggested. Suggesting Somos (company) per WP:NCCORP. — Andy W. (talk · ctb) 20:53, 11 August 2016 (UTC)Reply
Oppose but relisting. The official name change is not grounds for a move under WP:AT, which all editors are urged in many places to read before raising or commenting on a move request, and make the basis for any rationale. If a rationale can be provided, then I'll change my vote, but so soon after the rename it's more likely that the common name has not yet changed (and it may never do so). Andrewa (talk) 07:09, 13 August 2016 (UTC).Reply
Oh, c'mon guys, this is just ridiculous. WP:NCCORP says we should call it simply Somos. But that's a disambiguation, and nobody is suggesting this as the WP:primary topic for the name, so we have to disambiguate. WP:NCCORP says "When disambiguation is needed, the legal status, an appended "(company)", or other suffix can be used to disambiguate (for example, Oracle Corporation, Borders Group, Be Inc., and Illumina (company))." So that guideline is ambivalent over the question of Somos, Inc. or Somos (company). Either is acceptable. Regarding the official name change, no, it is highly likely that reliable sources will respect the new name and use it in future articles. We will always finds the former name used in old, archived news. Bruce Jenner? That's a redirect. Enough said. Then we have the issue that Somos is now the company, but SMS/800 appears to still be the name of their product. Were we to keep this name, we would need to rewrite it to be an article about the Service Management System (SMS) 800 number database, rather than the company that manages that. It's likely that the requester, with 10 edits to their name as I write this, is somehow affiliated with the company. I'm inclined to go with their preferred name. Ordinarily I treat requests of this nature as technical requests when I run across them, and perform the move immediately. Which I will do now. – wbm1058 (talk) 13:40, 20 August 2016 (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.

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